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Martin Caidin was born on September 14, 1927, in New York, United States
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Me109
(Ballantine war book detailing one of the best German figh...)
Ballantine war book detailing one of the best German fighters of WWII
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1972
Samurai! (Wings of war)
(Written by Martin Caidin from Saburo Sakai's own memoirs ...)
Written by Martin Caidin from Saburo Sakai's own memoirs and journalist Fred Saito's extensive interviews with the World War II fighter pilot, Samurai! vividly documents the chivalry and valor of the combat aviator who time after time fought American fighter pilots and, with 64 kills, would survive the war as Japan's greatest living ace. Here are the harrowing experiences of one of Japan's greatest aces: from fighter pilot school — where the harsh training expelled over half of his class — to the thrilling early Japanese victories; from his incredible six hundred mile fight for life from Guadalcanal to his base in Rabaul, to the poignant story of the now-handicapped veteran's return to the air during the final desperate months of World War II.
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1990
Fork-Tailed Devil (Military History)
(One of America's greatest military aviation historians re...)
One of America's greatest military aviation historians relates the astonishing--and true--story of the only American warplane to fight in every operational theater in World War II from Pearl Harbor to Alaska and North Africa to Northern Europe.
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Zero!
(“This is the thrilling saga of war in the air in the Paci...)
“This is the thrilling saga of war in the air in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II told from the Japanese point of view. It is the story of the men who created, led, and fought in the deadly Zero fighter plane. In their own words, Jiro Horikoshi (who designed the Zero), Masatake Okumiya (leader of many Zero squadrons), and Saburo Sakai (Japan's leading surviving fighter ace) as well as many other men, tell the inside story of developing the Zero and Japan's air force. They tell what it felt like to bomb American ships and to shoot down American airplanes - and then of their shock when the myth of invincibility was shattered by the new Lightning, Hellcat, and Corsair fighters. They tell of the fight against the growing strength of a remorseless American enemy; and how, in desperation the Japanese High Command ordered the creation of deadly suicide squadrons, the Kamikaze. And finally they reveal their reaction to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”-Print ed.
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Thunderbolt, The P-47 eBook: Martin Caiden, Robert Johnson: Books
(They were outnumbered and underrated. They were fresh fro...)
They were outnumbered and underrated. They were fresh from the training fields in America and ordered to fight an enemy that had rewritten the book of war and brutally controlled a continent and the air above it. But the men of the 56th fighter group had courage and, more importantly, they had the P-47 Thunderbolt. This is the incredible story of the U.S. 56th Fighter Group as told by one of its best pilots, Robert S. Johnson,who would rack up a score of twenty-eight kills against the Luftwaffe and become one of America¹s top aces?one of a special breed of men who changed the course of history.
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Martin Caidin
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Caidin began his writing career at age sixteen as an associate editor for Air News and Air Tech and while still a teenager had been invited to join the Aviation Writers Association. He later served as a consultant on such subjects as nuclear warfare and aviation medicine to government agencies including the New York State Civil Defense Commission, the Air Force Missile Test Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and the Federal Aviation Agency. His career expanded to include broadcasting and appearances as a stunt pilot, and his Mary Jane Tonight at Angels Twelve (1972) offers a fictionalized account of his flights simulating drug smuggling as a training exercise for narcotics agents. His later works include The Saga of Iron Annie (1979), Sun Bright (1979), Kill Devil Hill: Discovering the Secret of the Wright Brothers, a 1979 collaboration with H. B. Combs, the novel Manfrac (1981), Ragwings and Heavy Iron: The Agony and Ecstasy of Flying History’s Greatest Warbirds (1984), Killer Station (1985), Zaboa (1986), and Prison Ship (1989).
Caidin was an airplane pilot as well, and bought and restored a 1936 Junkers Ju 52 airplane. During 1961, Caidin was one of the pilots of a formation flight of B-17s across the Atlantic Ocean, likely the last such flight, from the United States to England via Canada, the Azores, and Portugal. In addition, Caidin also taught a progressive journalism course at the University of Florida in Gainesville, titled Caidin's Law.
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Works
book
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Samurai! (Wings of war)
(Written by Martin Caidin from Saburo Sakai's own memoirs ...)
1990 -
Fork-Tailed Devil (Military History)
(One of America's greatest military aviation historians re...)
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Zero!
(“This is the thrilling saga of war in the air in the Paci...)
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Me109
(Ballantine war book detailing one of the best German figh...)
1972 -
Thunderbolt, The P-47 eBook: Martin Caiden, Robert Johnson: Books
(They were outnumbered and underrated. They were fresh fro...)
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Samurai! (Wings of war)
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March 24, 1997 (aged 69) -
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United States