INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 01 THE U.S. ARMY AIR FORCES Baumler and Tinker: The Volunteers Hill: Flying with the Tigers Wagner: The USAAF's First Ace Bong: America's Ace of Aces McGuire: He Died Trying Kearby: Top Pacific Thunderbolt Ace Gabreski: The USAAF Top Man in Europe Johnson: The Country Boy Ace MacDonald: With Lindbergh in the Pacific Preddy: The Top Mustang Ace Meyer: Most Likely to Succeed Gentile: An American Ace in Two Air Forces Zemke: From Wolfpack to Stalag CHAPTER 02 THE US NAVY AND MARINE CORPS McCampbell: The Navy's Top Ace O'Hare: The Most Daring Single Action Harris: Second Place Naval Ace Valencia: Kamikaze Killer Foss: A Marine Matches Rickenbacker Boyington: The Black Sheep Hanson: Top Corsair Ace CHAPTER 03 GERMANY Hartmann: There Is Only One Number One Mölders: First to Top the Red Baron Galland: The General Was an Ace Barkhorn: Also Over 300 Rall: Germany's Number Three Ace Nowotny: The Austrian Expert Rudorffer: Thirteen on One Mission Bär: The Top Me 262 Jet Ace Steinhoff: The Man Without a Face Marseille: The Best Fighter Pilot Ever? CHAPTER 04 THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH Deere: A Hero of the Battle of Britain Pattle: The Top Ace in the Royal Air Force Johnson: The Top-Scoring Englishman Malan: The Sailor Was an Airman Tuck: The Caged Eagle Bader: The Legless Ace Who Couldn't Be Caught Beurling: The Highest-Scoring Canadian Ace Woodward: Canada's Number Two Ace Caldwell: The Top-Scoring Australian Ace Gray: New Zealand's Top Ace Wade: The Yank in the Royal Air Force CHAPTER 05 JAPAN Anabuki: Top IJAAF Ace Nishizawa and Iwamoto: The Two at the Top Sakai: The Man Who Lived to Tell the Tale CHAPTER 06 THE SOVIET UNION Kozhedub: The Soviet Union's Ace of Aces Pokryshkin and Rechkalov: Top Runners-Up Litvyak and Budanova: Not All the Aces Were Men CHAPTER 07 ITALY Visconti: Number One Lucchini: Baracca Della Segunda Guerra Mundial CHAPTER 08 FRANCE Clostermann: In the Shadow of René Fonck CHAPTER 09 POLAND Skalski: The First and Finest Horbaczewski: On Skalski's Wing Gladych: Five Air Forces and Three Lives CHAPTER 10 THE OTHER ALLIED AIR FORCES Czechoslovakia Norway Netherlands Belgium CHAPTER 11 THE OTHER AXIS AIR FORCES Slovakia Hungary Romania Bulgaria Croatia Spain CHAPTER 12 FINLAND Juutilainen: Finland' Ace of Aces Wind: Finland's Second Highest-Scoring Ace INDEX.