Böcker i North Texas Military Biography and Memoir Series-serien

Presents the true account of the war-time experiences of Harry Andrew March, Jr, captured by way of diary entries addressed to his beloved wife, Elsa. Nicknamed ""Dirty Eddie"" by his comrades, he served as a member of four squadrons operating in the South Pacific, frequently under difficult and perilous conditions.

On a summer's day in Montana, a frontier cavalry officer, Powhatan Henry Clarke, died at the height of his career. He was a fearless field commander, gaining glory and first-hand knowledge of what it took to campaign in the West. A chance meeting brought Clarke together with artist Frederic Remington, who brought national attention to Clarke.

US Marine George Burlage was part of the largest surrender in American history at Bataan and Corregidor in the spring of 1942. After the war Burlage wrote about his POW experiences. His daughter discovered his writings in 2008, and has edited them with historical material to provide context for his World War II experiences in the Pacific.

Tells the story of a Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) in the back seat of the supersonic Phantom jet during the Vietnam War - a unique, tactical perspective of the "guy in back", or GIB, absent from other published aviation accounts.

The WWI memoir of Ward Schrantz, a National Guard officer and machine gun company commander in the Kansas-Missouri 35th Division. He documents his experiences from training at Camp Doniphan to the voyage across the Atlantic, and his time in the trenches in France's Vosges Mountains and ultimately his return home.

Tells the story of J.R. Ritter (1902-1994), a civil engineer from Texas who became a US Navy Seabee officer during World War II. For his memoir he preserved personal papers, letters, photos, and other items, many of which are reproduced in this book.

David R. ""Buff"" Honodel was a cocky young man with an inflated self-image when he arrived in 1969 at his base in Udorn, Thailand. His war was not in Vietnam; it was a secret one in the skies of a neighboring country. The reader will experience Buff's war from the cockpit of a supersonic F-4D Phantom II.

The 15th Air Force generally has been overshadowed by works on the 8th Air Force based in England. Tom Faulkner's memoir helps fill an important void by providing a first-hand account of a pilot and his crew during the waning months of the war, as well as a description of his experiences before his military service.

In 1940, Roy H. Elrod joined the Marine Corps. His unit, the 8th Marine Regiment, went into the fight at Guadalcanal. On D-Day at Tarawa his platoon waded their 37mm cannons ashore through half a mile of bullet-laced surf. At Saipan, Elrod commanded a platoon of 75mm halftracks. Fred H. Allison interviewed Elrod, drew on wartime letters, and provided annotations to his narrative to tell his story.

She flew the swift P-51 and the capricious P-38, but the heavy, four-engine B-17 bomber and C-54 transport were her forte. This is the story of Nancy Harkness Love who, early in World War II, recruited and led the first group of twenty-eight women to fly military aircraft for the US Army.