- The Bomber Mafia, a dream, a temptation, and the longest night of the second World War, Malcolm Gladwell
- Flying Tigers, Claire Chennault and the American Volunteer Group, Daniel Ford
- Indestructible, one man's rescue mission that changed the course of WWII, John R. Bruning
- The fallen, a true story of American POWs and Japanese wartime atrocities, Marc Landas
- Lucky 666, the impossible mission, Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
- The forgotten 500, the untold story of the men who risked all for the greatest rescue mission of World War II, Gregory A. Freeman
- Tales of a war pilot, Richard C. Kirkland
- Lost in Shangri-la, a true story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II, Mitchell Zuckoff
- Wings of morning, the story of the last American bomber shot down over Germany in World War II, Thomas Childers
- The airmen and the headhunters, a true story of lost soldiers, heroic tribesmen and the unlikeliest rescue of World War II, Judith M. Heimann
- The forbidden diary, a B-24 navigator remembers, John L. Stewart
- My two wars, Moritz Thomsen ; introduction by Page Stegner
- Black snow, Curtis LeMay, the firebombing of Tokyo, and the road to the atomic bomb, James M. Scott
- The Tuskegee airmen, an illustrated history, 1939-1949, Joseph Caver, Jerome Ennels, Daniel Haulman
- Intrepid aviators, the true story of USS Intrepid's Torpedo Squadron 18 and its epic clash with the superbattleship Musashi, Gregory G. Fletcher
- Race of aces, WWII's elite airmen and the epic battle to become the master of the sky, John R. Bruning
- Dead reckoning, experiences of a World War II fighter pilot, by Alan K. Abner
- The wild blue :, the men and boys who flew the B-24s over Germany, Stephen E. Ambrose
- MacArthur's airman, General George C. Kenney and the war in the southwest Pacific, Thomas E. Griffith Jr
- Old man in a baseball cap, a memoir of World War II, Fred Rochlin
- Vanishing act, the enduring mystery behind the legendary Doolittle raid over Tokyo, Dan Hampton
- The fighting lady, the new Yorktown in the Pacific war, by Clark G. Reynolds
- Enduring courage, ace pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the dawn of the age of speed, John F. Ross
- Unbroken, a World War II airman's story of survival, resilience, and redemption, Laura Hillenbrand
- Hell above earth, the incredible true story of an American WWII bomber commander and the copilot ordered to kill him, Stephen Frater
- Fighter pilot, the memoirs of legendary ace Robin Olds, Robin Olds with Christina Olds and Ed Rasimus
- Pacific air, how fearless flyboys, peerless aircraft, and fast flattops conquered a vast ocean's wartime skies, David Sears
- Pacific carrier, The saga of the USS Yorktown (CV-10) in WWII, by Ruben P. Kitchen
- The first heroes, the extraordinary story of the Doolittle Raid--America's first World War II victory, Craig Nelson
- Fifty-three days on Starvation Island, the World War II battle that saved Marine Corps aviation, by John R. Bruning
- Masters of the air, America's bomber boys who fought the air war against Nazi Germany, Donald L. Miller
- Screaming eagle, memoirs of a B-17 group commander, by Dale O. Smith
- Hap Arnold and the evolution of American airpower, Dik Alan Daso
- 81 days below zero, the incredible survival story of a World War II pilot in Alaska's frozen wilderness, Brian Murphy, with Toula Vlahou
- The last fighter pilot, the true story of the final combat mission of World War II, Don Brown with Captain Jerry Yellin ; forewords by Captain Jerry Yellin and Melanie Sloan
- World War II memoirs, the Pacific Theater
- Forgotten Fifteenth, the daring airmen who crippled Hitler's war machine, Barrett Tillman
- Tumult in the clouds, James A. Goodson
- Lost destiny, Joe Kennedy Jr. and the doomed WWII mission to save London, Alan Axelrod
- 1000 destroyed, the life and times of the 4th Fighter Group, by Grover C. Hall, Jr
- Never call me a hero, a legendary American dive-bomber pilot remembers the Battle of Midway, N. Jack "Dusty" Kleiss, with Timothy and Laura Orr
- The last mission, the secret story of World War II's final battle, Jim B. Smith and Malcolm McConnell
- Cronkite's war, his World War II letters home, Walter Cronkite IV and Maurice Isserman ; [foreword by Tom Brokaw]
- The man who flew the Memphis Belle, memoir of a WWII bomber pilot, Robert Morgan, with Ron Powers
- When tigers ruled the sky, the Flying Tigers : American outlaw pilots over China in World War II, Bill Yenne
- The Black Sheep, the definitive account of Marine Fighting Squadron 214 in World War II, Bruce D. Gamble
- Target Tokyo, Jimmy Doolittle and the raid that avenged Pearl Harbor, James M. Scott
- Segregated skies, all-Black combat squadrons of World War II, Stanley Sandler
- The wild blue, the men and boys who flew the B-24s over Germany, Stephen E. Ambrose
- The fire and the darkness, the bombing of Dresden, 1945, Sinclair McKay