MEMBERSHIP/Book Program

NEW! World War II: A Chronology of War

The Air Force Historical Foundation is working in cooperation with the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, the Naval Historical Foundation, and the Army Historical Foundation to produce a large-format chronological history of World War II. It is similar in format to the book U. S. AIR FORCE: A Complete History, which the Foundation published in 2006. We anticipate the availability of this new book for sale in 2009.

U. S. AIR FORCE: A Complete History

Lt Col Dik Alan Daso, USAF (Ret)

Westport, Connecticut: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 2006.  Copyright (c) 2006 by The Air Force Historical Foundation.  624 pages with illustrations, table of contents, and index.  This is a new, coffee-table book published in preparation for the 60th Anniversary of the United States Air Force celebration in 2007.  It is a chronological history of the Air Force from the early days of flight through the Wright Brothers to the Aviation Section and on to the United States Air Force through June 2006.

$60.00 including shipping within the United States;
$20 extra outside US

The Air Force

General James P. McCarthy, USAF (Ret), and Colonel Drue L. DeBerry, USAF (Ret)

Westport, Connecticut: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 2002. Copyright (c) 2002 by The Air Force Historical Foundation. 368 pages with illustrations, table of contents, and index. This coffee-table book was published in preparation for the Centennial of Flight celebration in 2003. It is a narrative history of the United States Air Force and its predecessor organizations.

Price: $50.00 including shipping within the United States; $20 extra outside US

$50.00

Chasing the Silver Bullet: USAF Weapons Development from Vietnam to Desert Storm

by Kenneth P. Werrell

traces in unprecedented detail the evolution of the Air Force's principal weapons systems since the Korean War, from the ill-fated F-105 fighter-bomber of Vietnam to the revolutionary F-117 stealth bomber of Operation Desert Storm. This book is available for $37.95 at Borders, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, and the National Air and Space Museum and online at www.sipress.si.edu