Jay Stout: 9 books
Fortress Ploesti
The Campaign to Destroy Hitler's Oil
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2003
Unlike previous books on Ploesti, Jay Stout goes well beyond the famous big and bloody raid of August 1943 and depicts the entire 1944 strategic campaign of twenty-plus missions that all but knocked Ploesti out of the war and denied the German war machine the fuel and lubricants it so desperately...
Unsung Eagles
True Stories of America’s Citizen Airmen in the Skies of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
The nearly half-million American aircrewmen who served during World War II have almost disappeared. And so have their stories.
Award-winning writer and former fighter pilot Jay A. Stout uses Unsung Eagles to save an exciting collection of those accounts from oblivion. These are not rehashed...
Hammer from Above
Marine Air Combat Over Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
In Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Marine Corps’ ground campaign up the Tigris and Euphrates was notable for speed and aggressiveness unparalleled in military history. Little has been written, however, of the air support that guaranteed the drive’s success. Paving the way for the rush to Baghdad...
Air Apaches
The True Story of the 345th Bomb Group and Its Low, Fast, and Deadly Missions in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Historian and aviator Jay Stout follows up his spellbinding account of the U.S. 303rd Bomb Group—Hell’s Angels—with the equally remarkable story of the Air Apaches in the Pacific. Air Apaches reconstructs the war of the 345th Bomb Group in impressively painstaking detail, capturing what it was...
Vanished Hero
The Life, War and Mysterious Disappearance of America’s WWII Strafing King
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
A hell-bent-for-leather fighter pilot, Elwyn G. Righetti remains one of the most unknown, yet compelling, colorful and controversial commanders of World War II.
Arriving late to the war, he led the England-based 55th Fighter Group against the Nazis during the closing months of the fight with...
by Jay A. Stout
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
For anyone with the will to become a U.S. naval aviator, the future begins now. Marine fighter pilot and combat veteran Jay Stout shows us just what it takes to be a U.S. naval aviator in the twenty-first century, conducting us through every step of training as these dedicated, everyday heroes prepare...
Fighter Group
The 352nd "Blue-Nosed Bastards" in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Jay Stout breaks new ground in World War II aviation history with this gripping account of one of the war's most highly decorated American fighter groups.
Hell's Angels
The True Story of the 303rd Bomb Group in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
The true story of World War 2’s legendary Hell’s Angels—the 8th Air Force’s 303rd Bomb Group.
Although the United States declared war against Germany in December 1941, a successful assault on Nazi-occupied Europe could not happen until Germany’s industrial and military might were...
The Men Who Killed the Luftwaffe
The U.S. Army Air Forces Against Germany in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Dramatic story of World War II in the air. How the U.S. built an air force of 2.3 million men after starting with 45,000 and defeated the world's best air force. Vivid accounts of aerial combat.