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For warbird fans and students of the P-47 Thunderbolt:

Veteran aviation author Robert F. Dorr and astronaut and pilot Thomas D. Jones have produced H-e-l-l Hawks!, a riveting account of the gritty and unheralded war, long overlooked by military historians, fought by the young Thunderbolt pilots of the Ninth Air Force.

H-e-l-l Hawks! is the untold story of an aerial band of brothers (most barely twenty years old) who were part of a crucial Allied effort to bring airpower to bear on the front-line German armies. At the tip of this aerial spear were pilots and ground crews who worked and lived amid the cold and mud of their front-line airfields in conditions not much better than those of the GIs they supported each day. The authors follow the 365th Fighter Group, the H-e-l-l Hawks, from England-based interdiction missions supporting the D-Day invasion, across the Channel to their close-air-support base in a Norman apple orchard, to tank-busting sorties in the flak-filled skies over the Bulge, and finally to Germany for the final defeat of Hitler's Reich.

Through dozens of interviews and dramatic images, the authors let the voices of pilots and ground crewmen tell what it was like to fly daily into the teeth of Luftwaffe fighters and Wehrmacht flak to help win the victory in Europe. H-e-l-l Hawks!, published by Zenith Press in 2008, is available in stores and online.

H-e-l-l Hawks! by Robert F. Dorr and Thomas D. Jones. 336 pages. ISBN: 0760329184

http://www.zenithpress.com/Store/ProductDetails_39383.ncm
http://www.amazon.com/Hell-Hawks-American-Savaged-Wehrmacht/dp/0760329184

Contact: Thomas D. Jones -- skywalking1@gmail.com; http://www.AstronautTomJones.com; Robert F. Dorr -- robert.f.dorr@cox.net

Should you wish to purchase a copy of H-e-l-l Hawks! -- signed by both authors, contact the authors at addresses above.

You'll join H-e-l-l Hawks veterans who have read the book in agreeing that "They tell it the way it was."

I apologize for the hyphens -- the Forum software changes the title of our book automatically to "Heck". It's really "H-E-L-L" without the hyphens.

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B-52D pilot
veteran Space Shuttle astronaut

The book "H**L HAWKS!" about a P-47 Thunderbolt fighter group in combat in Europe in World War II has been well received. One of the greatest compliments paid the book came from the Experimental Aircraft Association's Warbirds magazine which called the book "a Stephen Ambrose-style" history and "a companion to 'Band of Brothers.'" As one-half of the writing duo of Robert F. Dorr and Thomas D. Jones, I'm grateful for the encouragement we've received.