Non-Fiction Books



China-Burma-India Theater of Operations

Army Missing in Action

Allen, Louis.  Burma:  The Longest War 1941-45.  Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1998.

Astor, Gerald. The Jungle War: Mavericks, Marauders and Madmen in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II.  Wiley, 2004.

Bayly, Christopher and Tim Harper.  Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945.  Belknap Press, 2005.

Bidwell, Shelford.  Chindit War:  Stilwell, Wingate, and the Campaign in Burma, 1944. Macmillan, 1980.

CBI Roundup (periodical). "the newspaper of the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater of World War II" http://cbi-theater-5.home.comcast.net/~cbi-theater-5/roundup/roundup.html

Fischer, Edward.  The Chancy War:  Winning China, Burma, and India in World War II.  Crown, 1991.

Fraser, George MacDonald.  Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II.  Skyhorse Publishing, 2007.

George, John.  Shots fired in anger: A rifleman's view of the war in the Pacific, 1942-1945, including the campaign on Guadalcanal and fighting with Merrill's Marauders in the jungles of Burma.  National Rifle Association, 1981.

Glist, Lou.  China Mailbag Uncensored: Letters from an American GI in World War II China and India. Emerald Ink, 2004. 

Hilsman, Roger.  American Guerrilla: My War Behind Japanese Lines.  Potomac Books, 2005.

Hopkins, James E. T. and John M. Jones.  Spearhead: A Complete History of Merrill's Marauder Rangers.  Galahad Press, 2000.

Hoyt, Edwin P.  Merrill's Marauders.  Pinnacle Books, 1980.

Koerner, Brendan I.  Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II. Penguin Press, 2008.

O'Brien, Terence.  The Moonlight War: The Story of Clandestine Operations in South-East Asia, 1944-45. Ulverscroft, 1990. 

Ogburn, Charlton, Jr.  The Marauders. Overlook TP, 2002.

Peers, William R. and Dean Brelis.  Behind the Burma Road: The Story of America's Most Successful Guerrilla Force.  Little, Brown & Company, 1963.

Prefer, Nathan N.  Vinegar Joe's War:  Stilwell's Campaigns for Burma.  Presidio Press, 2000.

Randle, Fred E. and William W. Hughes.  Hell On Land, Disaster At Sea: The Story Of Merrill's Marauders And The Sinking Of The Rhona.  Turner Publishing, 2003.

Rasor, Eugene L.   The China-Burma-India Campaign, 1931-1945: Historiography and Annotated Bibliography.   Greenwood, 1998.

Rayburn, Morris P.  I'll Never Forget: A Compendium of Events - 1936 to 1945 China - Burma - India World War II.  M. P. Rayburn & Associates, 1996

Romanus, Charles F. and Riley Sunderland. China-Burma-India Theater: Stilwell's Mission to China (United States Army in World War II).   Department of the Army, 1999.

Romanus, Charles F. and Riley Sunderland.  China-Burma-India Theater: Stilwell's Command Problems (United States Army in World War II).  Department of the Army, 1956.

Romanus, Charles F. and Riley Sunderland. China-Burma-India Theater:  Time Runs Out in CBI (United States Army in World War II).   Center of Military History, 1990.

Slim, William.  Defeat Into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945. Cooper Square Press, 2000.

Thompson, Julian. The Imperial War Museum Book of the War in Burma 1942-1945.  Pan Macmillan, 2004.

Tuchman, Barbara W.  Stilwell and The American Experience in China,  1911-1945.   Toronto:  Bantam, 1971. 

United States Army.  Merrill’s Marauders (February-May 1944). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1945

United States Army.  United States Army Campaigns of World War II:  India-Burma.  Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1992

United States Army.  United States Army Campaigns of World War II:  Burma. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1994.

Webster, Donovan.  The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II.  Harper Perennial, 2004.




Army Air Forces Missing in Action

14th Air Force Association.  Chennault's Flying Tigers:  A Commemorative History of the American Volunteer Group (The Original Flying Tigers), China Air Task Force, 14th Air Force:  1941-1945.   Dallas:  Taylor Publishing, 1982.

Baisden, Chuck.  Flying Tiger to Air Commando.   Schiffer Publishing, 1999.

Bell, Howard and Anthony Strotman.  The Burma Bridge Busters. BookSurge, 2005

Bond, Charles R.  and Terry H. Anderson.  A Flying Tiger's Diary.  Texas A&M University Press, 1993.

Byrd, Martha.   Chennault:  Giving Wings to the Tiger.   Tuscaloosa and London:  The University of Alabama Press, 1987.

China-Burma-India Hump Pilots Association. China Airlift:  The Hump, Volume II.    Dallas:  Taylor Publishing, 1983.   (See especially Consolidated Disposition Search and Rescue Cases, pp. 619-623).

Clements, Terrill.   American Volunteer Group Colours and Markings.  Osprey, 2001.

Constein, Carl Frey.  Born to Fly...The Hump:  A World War II Memoir.   1st Books Library, 2000.

Constein, Carl Frey.  Missing in the Himalayas:  Anatomy of an MIA Mission. AuthorHouse, 2005.

Constein, Cal Frey.  Tales of the Himalayas:  Letters from WWII Airmen Who Flew the Hump. 1st Books Library, 2002.

Cook, Gerard and Virginia Barbour Cook. Letters to Virginia:  Revealing Courage During World War II in China-Burma-India and at Home.  Trafford Publishing, 2003.

Cornelius, Wanda and Thayne Short. Ding Hao: America's Air War in China, 1937-1945.  Pelican, 1980.

Crawford, Raymond, George Crawford, and Fred Crawford. Three Crawford Brothers: The WW II Memoirs of Three Pilots.   AuthorHouse, 2008.

Daugherty, Leo J., III.  The Allied Resupply Effort in the China-Burma-India Theater During World War II.  McFarland, 2008.

Ethell, Jeff.   Flying the Hump.  Zenith Press, 2004.

Feuer, A. B. and Elmer E. Haynes.  The B-24 in China: General Chennault's Secret Weapon in WWII.  Stackpole, 2006.

Ford, Daniel.  Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942.   Collins, 2007.

Foster, John T. China:  Up and Down.  Rutland, VT:  Academy Books, 1994.

Glines, Carroll V.  Chennault's Forgotten Warriors:  The Saga of the 308th Bomb Group in China.  Atglen, PA:  Schiffer, 1995.

Gordon, John W.  Wings from Burma to the Himalayas.  Wolfe Publishing Company, 1992.

Harris, Mike.  Priority One.   BookSurge, 2005.

Henderson, W.  From China Burma India to the Kwai. Texian Press (Motorbooks), 1991. 

Isby, David.  C-47/R4D Skytrain Units of the Pacific and CBI.  Osprey, 2007.

King, Stephen C.  Flying the Hump to China.    AuthorHouse, 2004.

King, William C.  Building for Victory: World War II in China, Burma, and India and the 1875th Engineer Aviation Battalion.  Taylor Trade Publishing, 2004.

Lopez, Donald. Into the Teeth of the Tiger. Smithsonian, 1997.

Miller, Milt.  Tiger Tales.  Manhattan, KS: Sunflower University Press, 1984.

Molesworth, Carl.  P-40 Warhawk Aces of the CBI.   Osprey, 2000.

Molesworth, Carl. Sharks Over China: The 23rd Fighter Group in World War II.   Book Sales, 2001.

Molesworth, Carl.  Wing to Wing: Air Combat in China 1943-45.  Crown, 1990.

Murcutt, Miriam and Richard Starks. Lost in Tibet: The Untold Story of Five American Airmen, a Doomed Plane, and the Will to Survive.  The Lyons Press, 2005.

Pearson, Michael.  The Burma Air Campaign 1941-1945.  Pen & Sword Aviation, 2007.

Quinn, Chick Marrs. The Aluminum Trail:  China-Burma-India, World War II, 1942-1945 : how & where they died

Rosser, Harold C.  No Hurrahs For Me.  Covenant House, 2001.

Rust, Kenn C. and Stephen Muth. Fourteenth Air Force Story...in World War II.  Terre Haute, IN:  Sun Shine House, 1977.

Samson, Jack.  The Flying Tiger: The True Story of General Claire Chennault and the U.S. 14th Air Force in China.  Lyons Press, 2005.

Sargent, Mary T. Runway Towards Orion: The True Adventures of a Red Cross Girl on a B-29 Air Base in World War II India.  Triumph Press, 1984.  

Scott, Robert L.  God is My Co-Pilot.   New York:  Ballantine, 1943.

Sholl, Bruce S. "Bud". General Chennault's Replacement Crews: The 373rd Bomb Squadron (LAB) from China to Okinawa.   Xlibris, 2002.

Shores, Christopher, Brian Cull, Yasuho Izawa. Bloody Shambles : Volume One : The Drift to War to the Fall of Singapore.   Grub Street, 2002.

Shores, Christopher. Bloody Shambles Volume Two: The Complete Account of the Air War in the Far East, from the Defence of Sumatra to the Fall of Burma, 1942. Grub Street, 2002.

Shores, Christopher.   Air War for Burma:   The Concluding Volume of The Bloody Shambles Series. The Allied Air Forces Fight Back in South-East Asia 1942-1945.  Grub Street, 2005.

Sinclair, Wiliam Boyd.  Confusion Beyond Imagination:  : China-Burma-India in World War II. Vol. 1. Joe F. Whitley, 1986.

Sinclair, William Boyd. Confusion Beyond Imagination: Those Wild Blue Characters; Over the Hump; From Wings to Shoes. Volume Two.  Joe F. Whitley, 1988.

Sinclair, William Boyd.  Confusion Beyond Imagination: Pipe, Rails, and Wire Supply, Salvage, Shortage, and Surplus (Volume 3). Joe F. Whitley, 1988.

Sinclair, William Boyd. Confusion Beyond Imagination: Vinegar Joe, More Brass Hats and One GI (Vol. 4).  Joe F. Whitley, 1988.

Sinclair, William Boyd.  Confusion Beyond Imagination: Jungle Paddy and Mountain; Heroes and Awards; Mud Gravel Ruts and Rocks.  Joe F. Whitley, 1986.

Sinclair, William Boyd.  The Big Brothers, The Story of the B-29s.  Naylor, 1972.

Smith, Robert M.  With Chennault in China: A Flying Tiger's Diary.  Schiffer, 2007.

Spencer, Otha C. Flying the Hump:  Memories of an Air War.   Texas A&M University Press, 1994.

Stahura, Barbara.  Earthquakers 12th Bombardment Group (M) USAAF.  Turner Publishing, 1998.

Stanaway, John.  Mustang and Thunderbolt Aces of the Pacific and CBI.   Osprey, 1999.

Stanaway, John. P-38 Lightning Aces of the Pacific and CBI.  Osprey, 1997.

Starks, Richard and Miriam Murcutt.  Lost in Tibet: The Untold Story of Five American Airmen, a Doomed Plane, and the Will to Survive.  Lyons Press, 2005.

Stettner, Jack Z.  Memories of the Jing Bao and Beyond. AuthorHouse, 2000.

Thomasian, Karnig.  Then There Were Six: The true story of the 1944 Rangoon Disaster.  AuthorHouse, 2004.

Tunner, William H.  Over the Hump:  The Story of General William H. Tunner. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1964.

Turner Publishing Company.  7th Bombardment Group/Wing:  1918-1995.  Turner, 1997.

Turner Publishing Company.  40th Bombardment Group (VH) History.  Turner, 1989.

Turner Publishing Company.  58th Bomb Wing:  Wait Till the 58th Gets Here.   Turner Publishing Company, 1998.   See the section entitled "58th Bomb Wing KIA/MIA".

Turner Publishing Company.  Earthquakers: 12th Bombardment Group (M), USAAF.  Turner, 1998.

Turner Publishing Company.  "Where I Came In..." in China-Burma-India.  Turner, 1998.

Turner Publishing Company.  "Where I Came In..." in China-Burma-India, Volume II.  Turner.

Twenty-Second Bomb Squadron Association.   Eagles, Bulldogs & Tigers: History of the 22nd Bomb Squadron in China-Burma-India.  1997.

Van Wagner, R. D. Any Place, Any Time, Any Where: The 1st Air Commandos in World War II. Schiffer, 1998.

Vesely, James F.  Unlike Any Land You Know: The Story of the 'Burma Bridge Busters!' - The 490th Bomb Squadron in China-Burma-India.  AuthorHouse, 2004.

Werrell, Kenneth P.  Blankets of Fire:  U.S. Bombers over Japan during World War II.  Smithsonian, 1998.

Whistle, Roy A.  Westward-Ho-Jaldijao: India to Junk.   Redbird Press, 2005.

Xu, Guangqiu.  War Wings: The United States and Chinese Military Aviation, 1929-1949.  Greenwood Press, 2001.

Y'Blood, William T. Air Commandos Against Japan: Allied Special Operations in World War II Burma. Naval Institute Press, 2008.





Navy Missing in Action

Horton, John Ryder.  Ninety-Day Wonder: Flight To Guerrilla War.   AuthorHouse, 2000.

Mishler, Clayton.  Sampan Sailor: A Navy Man's Adventures in WWII China.  Brassey's US, 1994.

Winborn, Byron R.  Wen Bon: A Naval Air Intelligence Officer Behind Japanese Lines in China.  University of North Texas Press, 1994. 






Prisoners of War

Bishop, Lewis Sherman.  Escape From Hell:  An AVG Flying Tiger's Journey.  Tiger Eye Press, 2005.

Charles, H. Robert.  Last Man Out: Surviving the Burma-Thailand Death Railway: A Memoir.  Zenith Press, 2006.

Chittenden, William Howard.  From China Marine to Jap POW:  My 1364 Day Journey Through Hell.  Turner, 1995.

Crager, Kelly E.  Hell Under The Rising Sun: Texan POWs and the Building of the Burma-Thailand Death Railway.  Texas A&M University Press, 2008.

Grover, David H.  Captives of Shanghai, the Story of the President Harrison.  Western Maritime Press, 1989.

La Forte, Robert S. Building the Death Railway: The Ordeal of American POWs in Burma, 1942-1945. Scholarly Resources, 1992.






European Theater of Operations


Army Missing in Action

12th Armored Division Association. Hellcats, Volume 1.  Turner Publishing. date unknown.

12th Armored Division Association. Hellcats, Volume II.  Turner Publishing, 1997.

Allen, Peter.  One More River:  The Rhine Crossings of 1945.   New York:  Dorset Press, 1980.

Ambrose, Stephen E.  Band of Brothers.   New York:  Touchstone, 2001.

Ambrose, Stephen E.  Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany -- June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945.   Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Ambrose, Stephen E.  D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II.  Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Ambrose, Stephen E.  The Victors:  Eisenhower and His Boys:  The Men of World War II.  New York:  Simon & Schuster, 1998.

Asahina, Robert. Just Americans: How Japanese Americans Won a War at Home and Abroad.  Gotham, 2007.

Astor, Gerald.  A Blood-Dimmed Tide: The Battle of the Bulge by the Men Who Fought It.   Dell, 1993.

Astor, Gerald.  The Bloody Forest,  Battle for the Huertgen: September 1944 - January 1945.  Presidio Press, 2000.

Atkinson, Rick. An Army at Dawn : The War in Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy.  Henry Holt & Company, 2002. 

Atkinson, Rick.  The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944.  Volume Two of the Liberation Trilogy.   Henry Holt & Company, 2007.

Balkoski, Joseph.  Omaha Beach: D-Day, June 6, 1944.   Stackpole Books, 2006.

Balkoski, Joseph.  Utah Beach: The Amphibious Landing and Airborne Operations on D-day, June 6, 1944.   Stackpole Books, 2006.

Bando, Mark.  101st Airborne: The Screaming Eagles in World War II.   Zenith Press, 2007.

Bass, Michael A.   Story of the Century: 100th Infantry Division in World War II.  Battery Press, 1979.

Bendiner, Elmer.   The Fall of Fortresses: A Personal Account of the Most Daring, and Deadly, American Air Battles of World War II.  Putnam, 1980. 

Bennett, James Gordon. The Rohna Disaster.  Xlibris, 1998.

Black, Robert W.  The Battalion: The Dramatic Story of the 2nd Ranger Battalion in World War II.  Stackpole Books, 2006.

Blumenson, Martin.  Bloody River:  The Real Tragedy of the Rapido.  Texas A&M University Press, 1998

Blumenson, Martin.  United States Army in World War II: The European Theater of Operations, Breakout and Pursuit.  Center of Military History/US Army, 1984.

Blumenson, Martin.  United States Army in World War II:  The Mediterranean Theater of Operations: Salerno to Cassino.  Department of the Army, 1999.

Bowington, Elmer, ed.   History of the 13th Armored Division. Turner Publishing Company, 1997.

Clarke, Jeffrey J. and Robert Ross Smith.  United States Army in World War II. The European Theater of Operations. Riviera to the Rhine.  Center of Military History United States Army, 1993.

Cole, Hugh M. United States Army in World War II. The European Theater of Operations.  The Ardennes:  Battle of the Bulge. Department of the Army, 1965.

Cole, Hugh M.  United States Army in World War II: The European Theater of Operations. The Lorraine Campaign.  Historical Division, Department of the Army, 1950.

Cooper, Belton Y.  Death Traps: The Survival of an American Armored Division in World War II.  Presidio Press, 2003.

DeFelice, Jim.  Rangers at Dieppe: The First Combat Action of U.S. Army Rangers in World War II.  Berkley Hardcover, 2008.

Duus, Masayo.  Unlikely Liberators: The Men of the 100th and 442nd. University of Hawaii Press, 2007.

Eisenhower, John S. D.  The Bitter Woods: The Battle of the Bulge.  Da Capo Press, 1995.

Ferguson, John C.  Hellcats: The 12th Armored Division in World War II.   State House Press, 2004.

Fisher, Ernest F.  United States Army in World War II.   The Mediterranean Theater of Operations.  Cassino to the Alps. Dept. of the Army, 2002. 

Francois, Dominique. 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment: Normandie, Ardennes, Allemagne - A Forgotten Regiment.  Heimdal, 2002.

Garland, Albert N. and Howard McGaw Smyth.  United States Army in World War II:  The Mediterranean Theater of Operations:  Sicily and the Surrender of Italy.    Office of the Chief of Military History, 1965.

Gawne, Jonathan.  Americans in Brittany 1944: The Battle for Brest. Histoire and Collections, 2002.

Gawne, Jonathan.  Spearheading D-Day: American Special Units, 6 June, 1944.  Histoire and Collections, 2001.

Harrison, Gordon A.  United States Army in World War II.  The European Theater of Operations: Cross-channel Attack.  Chief of Military History, US Army, 1984.

Howe, George F.  United States Army in World War II: The Mediterranean Theater of Operations. Northwest Africa: Seizing the Initiative in the West.  Center of Military History, 1993. 

Irgang, Frank. Etched in Purple: One Soldier's War in Europe.   Potomac Books, 2008.

Jackson, Carlton.  Allied Secret: The Sinking of HMT Rohna.  University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.

Jeffers, H. Paul.  Onward We Charge: The Heroic Story of Darby's Rangers in World War II.   NAL Hardcover, 2007.

Kelly, Orr.  Meeting the Fox: The Allied Invasion of Africa, from Operation Torch to Kasserine Pass to Victory in Tunisia.   Wiley, 2002.

Khoury, John M.  Love Company: L Company, 399th Infantry Regiment, of the 100th Infantry Division during World War II and Beyond.    Chi Chi Press, 2003.

Koskimaki, George.  Hell's Highway: A Chronicle of the 101st Airborne in the Holland Campaign, September-November 1944.   Presidio Press, 2007.

Kurzman, Dan. No Greater Glory: The Four Immortal Chaplains and the Sinking of the Dorchester in World War II.   Random House, 2004.

Lewis, Nigel.  Exercise Tiger: The Dramatic True Story of a Hidden Tragedy of World War II (A Training Exercise That Went Horrifyingly Wrong).  Prentice Hall, 1990.

MacDonald, Charles B.  The Battle of the Huertgen Forest.  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. 

MacDonald, Charles B. United States Army in World War II.  The European Theater of Operations, The Siegfried Line Campaign. Office of the Chief of Military History, US Army, 1977.

MacDonald, Charles B. United States Army in World War II.  The European Theater of Operations, The  Last Offensive. Office of the Chief of Military History, US Army, 1973.

MacDonald, Charles B.  A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge.  Harper Perennial, 1997.

MacDonald, Charles B. and Sidney T. Matthews.  United States Army in World War II.  The European Theater of Operations.  Three Battles: Arnaville, Altuzzo, and Schmidt.   Department of the Army, 1952.

Nordyke, Phil.  All American, All The Way: The Combat History Of The 82nd Airborne Division In World War II.    Zenith Press, 2005.

Nordyke, Phil. Four Stars of Valor: The Combat History of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment in World War II.  Zenith Press, 2006.

Orfalea, Gregory. Messengers of the Lost Battalion: The Heroic 551st and the Turning of the Tide at the Battle of the Bulge. Touchstone, 1999.

Parker, Matthew.  Monte Cassino: The Hardest-Fought Battle of World War II. Doubleday, 2004.

Ruggero, Ed.  Combat Jump: The Young Men Who Led the Assault into Fortress Europe, July 1943.  Harper Paperbacks, 2004.

Ryan, Cornelius.  A Bridge Too Far.  New York:  Popular Library, 1974

Ryan, Cornelius.  The Longest Day: The Classic Epic of D-Day.  Simon & Schuster, 1994.

Sterner, C. Douglas. Go For Broke.  American Legacy Media, 2007.

Turner Publishing Company.  75th Infantry Division:  Ardennes, Central Europe, Rhineland.  Turner, 2002.

Turner Publishing Company (corporate author).  Battle of the Bulge:  50th Anniversary, 1995.

Turner Publishing Company.  History of the 14th Armored Division.  Turner, 1997.

Walsh, Michael.  Rohna Memories: Eyewitness to Tragedy.   iUniverse, 2005.

Warnock, Bill.  The Dead of Winter:  How Battlefield Investigators, WWII Veterans, and Forensic Scientists Solved the Mystery of the Bulge's Lost Soldiers.  Chamberlain Brothers, 2005.

Welch, Bob.  American Nightingale: The Story of Frances Slanger, Forgotten Heroine of Normandy.  Atria, 2004.

Whitlock, Flint.  The Rock Of Anzio: From Sicily To Dachau, A History Of The U.S. 45th Infantry Division.  Basic Books, 2005.

Wright, Stephen L.  The Last Drop: Operation Varsity, March 24-25, 1945. Stackpole Books, 2008.

Wurst, Spencer and Gayle Wurst.  Descending From The Clouds: A Memoir of Combat in the 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division.   Casemate, 2005.






Army Air Forces Missing in Action

Alling, Charles. A Mighty Fortress: Lead Bomber Over Europe.  Casemate, 2006.

Ambrose, Stephen E.  The Wild Blue:  The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany.  New York:  Simon & Schuster, 2001.

Amos, Robert F. and Katherine Sredl, eds. Defenders of Liberty: 2nd Bombardment Group/Wing 1918-1993.  Turner,  1997.

Anderson, Andy.  ONE PILOT'S STORY: THE FABLED 91st And Other 8th AIR FORCE Memoirs.   AuthorHouse, 2006.  

Bastien, Charles R. 32 Co Pilots.  Trafford Publishing, 2004.

Boiten, Theo and Martin W. Bowman.  Jane's Battles with the Luftwaffe: The Bomber Campaign Against Germany 1942-45. Collins, 2001.

Bowman, Martin W.  Clash of Eagles: USAAF 8th Air Force Bombers Versus the Luftwaffe in World War II. Pen and Sword, 2007.

Bowman, Martin W. and Truett Lee Woodall, Jr. Helton's Hellcats:  A Pictorial History of the 493rd Bomb Group.   Turner Publishing, 1998.

Breaux, Kenneth.  Courtesies of the Heart. Trafford Publishing, 2006.

Brulle, Robert V. Angels Zero: P-47 Close Air Support in Europe.  Smithsonian, 2000.

Bucholtz, Chris.  332nd Fighter Group - Tuskegee Airmen. Osprey, 2007.

Childers, Thomas. Wings Of Morning: The Story Of The Last American Bomber Shot Down Over Germany In World War II .   Da Capo Press, 1996.

Clark, John A.  An Eighth Air Force Combat Diary: Combat Missions Flown with the 100th Bomb Group, England 1944-1945.   First Page Publications, 2001.

Colley, David P.  Safely Rest.  Berkley, 2004.

Craven, W. F. and J. L. Cate. Europe:  Torch to Pointblank, August 1942 to December 1943, The Army Air Forces in World War II, Volume II. Office of Air Force History, 1983.
(http://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/Publications/Annotations/cravenAAFWWII.htm)

Craven, W. F. and J. L. Cate. Europe: Argument to V-E Day, January 1944 to May 1945, Volume III, The Army Air Forces in World War II.  Office of Air Force History, 1983
(http://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/Publications/Annotations/cravenAAFWWII.htm)

Crosby, Harry H.  A Wing and a Prayer.  iUniverse, 2001.  

Dale, Diana Thompson.  Finding Billy:  An Internet Odyssey.   Golden Slipper Press, 2003.

Darter, Michael I.   Fateful Flight of the Lonesome Polecat II.   iUniverse, Inc., 2004.

de Jong, Ivo. An Ordinary Mission:  US 8th Air Force Operation 376, 28 May 1944.  Hikoki, 2004.

Dorr, Robert F.  B-24 Liberator Units of the Fifteenth Air Force.   Osprey Publishing, 2000.

Dorr, Robert F. and Thomas D. Jones.  Hell Hawks!: The Untold Story of the American Fliers Who Savaged Hitler's Wehrmacht.  Zenith Press, 2008.

Dugan, James and Steward, Carroll.  Ploesti:  The Great Ground Air Battle of 1 August 1943.  New York:  Random House, 1962.  (See, especially, Biographical Index A:  Bomber Crewmen Who Flew on Tidal Wave, pp. 302-385).

Dyreborg, Erik.  The Lucky Ones: Airmen of the Mighty Eighth.  AuthorHouse, 2002.

Ethell, Jeffrey.  Target Berlin: Mission 250: 6 March 1944.  Greenhill Books, 2002.

Francis, Charles E. and Adolph Caso.  Tuskegee Airmen: The Men Who Changed a Nation.  Branden Books, 2002. 

Freeman, Roger A.  Mighty Eighth War Diary.   Jane's Information Group, 1981.

Freeman, Roger A.  The Mighty Eighth War Manual.   Cassell, 2001.

Freeman, Roger.  The Mighty Eighth: A History of the Units, Men and Machines of the US 8th Air Force.  Arms and Armour, 2000.

Geary, T. C. B-29 The Lost Flight of 428.   BookSurge, 2003.

Groh, Richard.  The Dynamite Gang: The 367th Fighter Group in World War II.  Aero Publishers, 1983.

Havelaar, Marion and William N. Hess. The Ragged Irregulars of Bassingbourn: The 91st Bomb Group in World War II.   Schiffer, 1995.

Hess, William N.  Hell in the Heavens: Ill-Fated 8th Air Force Bomb Group Missions.   Specialty Press, 2000.

Hill, Michael.  Black Sunday:  Ploesti.  Atglen, PA:  Schiffer, 1993 (See, especially, Appendix II:  The Aircraft & The Crews:  Operation 'Tidal Wave', pp. 199-247).

Hill, Michael D.  and  John R. Beitling.  B-24 Liberators of the 15th Air Force/49th Bomb Wing in World War II.  Schiffer, 2006.

Hinrichs, Edward.  Missing Planes of the 452nd Bomb Group.   Trafford Publishing, 2004.

Ivie, Tom and Paul Ludwig.  Spitfires and Yellow Tail Mustangs: The 52nd Fighter Group in World War II.   Hikoki, 2005.

Jones, Jay.  The 370th Fighter Group in World War II in Action over Europe.  Schiffer, 2007.

Korkuc, Bob.  Finding a Fallen Hero: The Death of a Ball Turret Gunner.  University of Oklahoma Press, 2008.

Kucera, Dennis C.  In a Now Forgotten Sky: The 31st Fighter Group in WW2.  Flying Machines Press, 2007.

MacKay, Ron.  First in the Field:  The 1st Air Division over Europe in World War II.   Atglen, PA:   Schiffer, 2007.

MacKay, Ron.  Ridgewell's Flying Fortresses: The 381st Bombardment Group (H) in World War II.  Schiffer, 2000.

McCarty, Lyle.  Coffee Tower:  A History of the 459th Bombardment Group in World War II. Turner Publishing Company, 1997.  " Includes mission, aircraft, and MACR lists as well as group statistics and a roster."

McClendon, Dennis E.  The Lady Be Good: Mystery Bomber of World War II.  Aero, 1982.

McGuire, William C., II.  After the Liberators: A Father's Last Mission, a Son's Lifelong Journey.  Parkway Publishers, 1999.

Martinez, Mario.  Lady's Men: The Story of World War II's Mystery Bomber and Her Crew.  US Naval Institute Press, 1999.

Middlebrook, Martin. The Battle of Hamburg: The Firestorm Raid.  Cassell, 2000.

Middlebrook, Martin.  The Schweinfurt-Regensburg Mission.  Scribner, 1983.

Miller, Donald L. Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany.   Simon and Schuster, 2007.

Miller, Kent D.   Fighter Units & Pilots of the 8th Air Force September 1942- May 1945:  Volume 1:  Day-to-Day Operations - Fighter Group Histories.  Atglen, PA:  Schiffer, 2000.

Miller, Kent D.  Fighter Units & Pilots of the 8th Air Force September 1942 - May 1945: Volume 2 Aerial Victories - Ace Data.   Atglen, PA:  Schiffer, 2000.  

Miller, Kent D. 365th Fighter Squadron in World War II: In Action Over Europe with the P-47. Schiffer Publishing, 2007.

Miller, Kent D.  The 356th Fighter Group in World War II in Action over Europe:  In Action over Europe with the P-47 and P-51.  Schiffer, 2003.

Money, Barry and Ann.  The Warlords Volume 1: The 4th, 20th & 55th Fighter Groups.  Flight Recorder Publications, 2004. 

Morris, Rob. Untold Valor: Forgotten Stories of American Bomber Crews over Europe in World War II.        Potomac Books, 2006.

Moxley, Gene F.  Missing in Action.  1st Books Library, 2002.

Neal, C. C. , ed.  Gentlemen from Hell: Men of the 487th Bomb Group : Leaders of the Largest Eighth Air Force Mission of World War II.    Turner Publishing, 2005.

O'Neill, Brian D.  Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer.   McGraw-Hill, 1999. 

Overy, R. J.   The Air War:  1939-1945.   New York:  Stein and Day, 1981.

Pace, Steve.  B-25 Mitchell Units of the MTO.  Osprey, 2002.

Pons, Gregory. 8th Air Force: American Heavy Bomber Groups in England 1942-1945.  Histoire and Collections, 2008.

Schultz, Duane. Into the Fire: Ploesti, The Most Fateful Mission of World War II.  Westholme Publishing , 2007.

Second Air Division, Eighth Air Force, USAAF.   Paducah, KY:  Turner Publishing, 1998.  (See Roll of Honor, pp. 148-169).

Smith, Jack H. Mustangs & Unicorns: A History of the 359th Fighter Group. Pictorial Histories Publishing, 1997. 

Speer, Frank E.  The Debden Warbirds: The Fourth Fighter Group in World War II. Schiffer, 1999.

Spires, David N.  Air Power for Patton's Army: The XIX Tactical Air Command in the Second World War.  University Press of the Pacific, 2005.

Stout, Jay A. Fortress Ploesti: The Campaign to Destroy Hitler's Oil Supply.  Casemate, 2003.

Sullivan, John J. Overlord's Eagles: Operations of the United States Army Air Forces in the Invasion of Normandy in World War II.  McFarland & Company, 1997. 

Turner Publishing Company. 456th Bombardment Group: Steed's Flying Colts, 1943 - 1945.   Turner, 1997.  "lists of KIAs and MIAs"

Turner Publishing Company.  "The Fight'n" 451st Bombardment Group (H):  World War II.  Turner, 1990"Features ... list of men who died while in service."

Van Eyck, Manuel F.  Silent Heroes, Volume 1.  Turner Publishing, 2002.  " it is about the 8th - 9th & 15th Air Force aircrafts lost over occupied Czechoslovakia in 1944."

Walton, Marilyn Jeffers. Rhapsody in Junk: A Daughter's Return To Germany To Finish Her Father's Story. AuthorHouse, 2007.

Ward, Ray, Ed.  Those Brave Crews: The Epic Raid to Destroy Hitler's Ploesti Oil Fields. Weldon Publications, 2003.

Watkins, Robert A. Battle Colors: Insignia and Aircraft Markings of the Eighth Air Force in World War II: Vol.1/(VIII) Bomber Command.   Schiffer, 2007.

Watts, Perry.  The 467th Bombardment Group (H) in World War II: In Combat With the B-24 Liberator over Europe.   Schiffer, 2005.

Widfeldt, Bo and Rolph Wegmann.  Making for Sweden.  Crecy Publishing Ltd, 1999.

Wilson, Paul and Ron MacKay.  The Sky Scorpions: The Story of the 389th Bomb Group in World War II.  Schiffer, 2006.  

Woerpel, Don.  The 79th Fighter Group: Over Tunisia, Sicily, and Italy in World War II. Schiffer, 2007.

Wolf, William. American Fighter-Bombers in World War II: USAAF Jabos in the MTO and ETO.   Schiffer, 2007.





Navy Missing in Action

Morison, Samuel Eliot.  The Battle of the Atlantic: September 1939-May 1943 (History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume 1). Castle Books, 2001.

Morison, Samuel Eliot.  Operations in North African Waters: October 1942-June 1943 (History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume 2). Castle Books, 2001.

Morison, Samuel Eliot. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 9: Sicily-Salerno-Anzio, January 1943-June 1944.  University of Illinois Press, 2001.

Morison, Samuel Eliot.  History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 10: The Atlantic Battle Won, May 1943-May 1945.  University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Morison, Samuel Eliot.  The Invasion of France and Germany 1944 - 1945 (History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume 11).  Castle Books, 2001.






Prisoners of War

Bard, Mitchell  G.  Forgotten Victims:  The Abandonment of Americans in Hitler's Camps.  Westview Press, 1996.

Cohen, Roger. Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble.    Anchor, 2006.

Drooz, Daniel.  American Prisoners of War in German Death, Concentration, and Slave Labor Camps: Germany's Lethal Policy in the Second World War.  Edwin Mellen Press, 2004.

Dyreborg, Erik.  The Captured Ones: American Prisoners of War in Germany 1944-1945.  iUniverse, 2006.

Foy, David A.  For You the War is Over:  American Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany.  Stein & Day, 1984







Other Books Relating to the European Theater

Alotta, Robert I.  and Donald R. Foxvog.  The Last Voyage of the S.S. Henry Bacon.   Continuum, 2002.

Lee, Loyd E., ed. World War II in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, with General Sources: A Handbook of Literature and Research.  Greenwood Press, 1997.

Walling, Michael G.  Bloodstained Sea: The U.S. Coast Guard in the Battle of the Atlantic, 1941-1944.  International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2004.






Pacific Theater of Operations



Army Missing in Action

Appleman, Roy E.  United States Army in World War II. The War in the Pacific: Okinawa, The Last Battle.  Dept. of the Army, 1995. 

Astor, Gerald.  Crisis in the Pacific: The Battles for the Philippine Islands by the Men Who Fought Them.  Dell, 2002.

Bass, Michael A.  Ed. Story of the Century: 100th Infantry Division in World War II.   Battery Press, 1979.

Campbell, James.  The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea--The Forgotten War of the South Pacific.  Three Rivers Press, 2008.

Cannon, M. Hamlin.  United States Army in World War II.  The War in the PacificLeyte:  The Return To The Philippines.   Department of the Army, 1973.

Cave, Dorothy.  Beyond Courage: One Regiment Against Japan, 1941-1945.   Yucca Tree Press, 1996.

Connaughton, Richard, John Pimlott, and Duncan Anderson.  Battle for Manila. Presidio Press, 2002.

Crowl, Phillip A.  United States Army in World War II.  The War in the Pacific. Campaign in the Marianas.  Department of the Army, 2000. 

Feiffer, George. Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb.  Houghton Mifflin, 1994.

Jones, Betty B.  The December Ship: A Story of Lt. Colonel Arden R. Boellner's Capture in the Philippines, Imprisonment, and Death on a World War II Japanese Hellship.  McFarland & Company, 1992. 

Lopez, Henry D. From Jackson to Japan: The history of Company C. 307th Infantry, 77th Division in World War II, its deeds, its casualties, honor roll, and awards (Unknown Binding)

Manchester, William.  American Caesar:  Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964.  New York:  Dell, 1978.

Miller, John, Jr.  United States Army in World War II.  The War in the Pacific.  Guadalcanal: The First  Offensive.  National Historical Society, 1993.

Miller, John, Jr.  United States Army in World War II: The War in the Pacific:  Cartwheel: The Reduction of Rabaul.  Center of Military History, United States Army, 1995.

Milner, Samuel.  United States Army in World War II: The War in the Pacific: Victory in Papua.  United States Government Printing Office, 1989.

Morton, Louis.  United States Army in World War II: The War in the Pacific: Strategy and Command: The First Two Years.   Chief Military Historian, Department of the Army, 1955.

Morton, Louis.  United States Army in World War II: The War in the Pacific: Fall of the Philippines.  Dept. of the Army, 1998.

Prefer, Nathan.  MacArthur's New Guinea Campaign:  March - August 1944.   Da Capo Press, 1995.

Radike, Floyd W.  Across the Dark Islands: The War in the Pacific.  Presidio Press, 2004.

Salecker, Gene Eric.  Rolling Thunder against the Rising Sun: The Combat History of U.S. Army Tank Battalions in the Pacific in WWII .  Stackpole Books, 2008.

Smith, Robert Ross.  United States Army in World War II.  The War in the Pacific.  The Approach to the Philippines.   Office of the Chief of Military History, 1953.

Smith, Robert Ross.  Triumph in the Philippines: The War in the Pacific.  University Press of the Pacific, 2005.

Taafe, Stephen R.  MacArthur's Jungle War: The 1944 New Guinea Campaign.   University Press of Kansas, 1998.

United States Army in World War II: The War in the Pacific. Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls.  U.S. Government Printing Office, 1970.

Urwin, Gregory J. W. The Capture of Attu: A World War II Battle as Told by the Men Who Fought There.  Bison Books, 2000.






Army Air Forces Missing in Action

Arakaki, Leatrice R. and Kuborn, John R.   7 December 1941:  The Air Force Story.  Office of History, Hickam AFB, 1991.  (See, especially, Appendix E: Army, Army Air Forces, and Civilian Casualty List, pp. 161-176 and Appendix F:  Hawaiian Air Force Military Casualty List, pp. 177-195).

Bartsch, William.  Doomed at the Start: American Pursuit Pilots in the Philippines, 1941-1942.  Reveille Books, 1995. 

Bartsch, William H.  December 8, 1941: MacArthur's Pearl Harbor.  Texas A&M University Press, 2003. 

Bruning, John R.  Jungle Ace: The Story of One of the USAAF's Great Fighter Leaders, Col. Gerald R. Johnson.  Potomac Books, 2003.

Burton, John.  Fortnight of Infamy: The Collapse of Allied Airpower West of Pearl Harbor.  US Naval Institute Press, 2006.

Cloe, John Haile. The Aleutian Warriors, A History of the 11th Air Force & Fleet Air Wing 4, Part 1.  Anchorage Ch-Air Force Assn and Pictorial Histories, 1991.

Craven, W. F. and J. L. Cate.  The Army Air Forces in World War II. Volume IV: The Pacific: Guadalcanal to Saipan, August 1942 to July 1944.  University of Chicago Press, 1950.
(http://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/Publications/Annotations/cravenAAFWWII.htm)

Craven, W. F. and J. L. Cate. The Army Air Forces in World War II: Volume V: The Pacific: Matterhorn to Nagasaki, June 1944 to August 1945.  University of Chicago Press, 1953.
(http://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/Publications/Annotations/cravenAAFWWII.htm)

Edoin, Hoito.  The Night Tokyo Burned:  The Incendiary Campaign against Japan, March-August 1945.  New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1987.

Gallagher, James P.  With the Fifth Army Air Force: Photos from the Pacific Theater.   The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Griffith, Thomas E.  MacArthur's Airman : General George C. Kenney and the War in the Southwest Pacific. University Press of Kansas, 1998.

Grover, Roy Lee.  Incidents In The Life of a B-25 Pilot.  AuthorHouse, 2006.  

Grube, Frank L.  Z Square 7, A B-29 True Story.   Frank L. Grube, 2005.

Henebry, John P. The Grim Reapers at Work in the Pacific Theater: The Third Attack Group of the U.S. Fifth Air Force.  Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 2002.

Krauss, Robert, Ed. The 509th Remembered: A History of the 509th Composite Group.  509th Press, 2005.

Lawson, Ted W.   Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.  New York:  Random House, 1943.

Livingstone, Bob.  Under the Southern Cross:  The B-24 Liberator in the South Pacific. Turner, 1998. 

McAulay, Lex.  Battle of the Bismarck Sea. St. Martin's Press, 1991.

McAulay, Lex. MacArthur's Eagles: The U.S. Air War Over New Guinea, 1943-1944.   US Naval Institute Press, 2005.

Mann, Robert A. The B-29 Superfortress: A Comprehensive Registry of the Planes and Their Missions. McFarland & Company,  2004. 

Martin, Adrian R. and Larry W. Stephenson.  Operation Plum: The Ill-Fated 27th Bombardment Group and the Fight for the Western Pacific.  Texas A&M University Press, 2008.

Molesworth, Carl. Very Long Range P-51 Mustang Units of the Pacific War.  Osprey Publishing, 2006.

Null, Gary.  Weapon of Denial: Air Power and the Battle for New Guinea (U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II).  Department of the Air Force, 1995.

Robertson, Gordon Bennett, Jr. Bringing the Thunder: The Missions of a World War II B-29 Pilot in the Pacific.   Stackpole Books, 2006.

Rothgeb, Wayne P. New Guinea Skies: A Fighter Pilot's View of World War II. Iowa State University Press, 1992.

Sheehan, Susan.  A Missing Plane.  New York:  Berkley, 1986.

Stanaway, John.  Kearby's Thunderbolts: The 348th Fighter Group in World War II. Schiffer, 1997.

Stanaway, John and Lawrence J. Hickey.  Attack and Conquer: The 8th Fighter Group in World War II. Schiffer, 1995.

Tibbets, Paul W. Mission:  Hiroshima.   New York:  Stein and Day, 1978.

Turner Publishing Company Staff.  11th Bomb Group (H): The Grey Geese.  Turner Publishing, 1996.

Wright, Jim.  The Flying Circus: Pacific War--1943--as Seen Through a Bombsight. The Lyons Press, 2005.







Marine Corps Missing in Action

Alexander, Joseph H.  Storm Landings: Epic Amphibious Battles in the Central Pacific. Naval Institute Press, 1997.

Alexander, Joseph H. Utmost Savagery:  The Three Days of Tarawa.   Presidio Press, 1996.

Burrell, Robert S.  The Ghosts of Iwo Jima. Texas A&M University Press, 2006.

Christ, James F.  Battalion of the Damned: The 1st Marine Paratroopers at Gavutu and Bloody Ridge, 1942.  US Naval Institute Press, 2007.

Christ, James F.  Mission Raise Hell: The U.S. Marines on Choiseul, October-November 1943.