Bell P-39 Airacobra & P-63 Kingcobra WW2 Fighter Warbird Books. 

I suggest, by Everett A. Long and Ivan Y. Negenblya, with Editor 
Tatiana Long.

The world's most inhospitable wilderness and most unforgiving weather cost lives to both Soviet and American pilots. This book is dedicated to those Soviet and American airmen who lost their lives making the world's greatest armada, spanning two continents--a success, On the monument in the Siberian village of Seymchan, one of the route's airdromes, there are some good words inscribed that say it best--" We shall never forget."

Authors Notes: Author of "Cobras Over The Tundra" a history of the Lend-Lease flights through Alaska to supply the Soviet Union with much needed warplanes.  This book is a collection of high quality photographs and stories of courage.  Young American and Russian airmen had to challenge the bitter cold of the Arctic winters, and the mosquitoes of summer flying over the tundra.  This is their story.

ISBN-10: 0963457810 ISBN-13: 978-0963457813

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Bell P-39 - P-63 Airacobra and Kingcobra 
(Warbird Technical Series Vol. 17)
by Frederick A. Johnsen

Book Description 
This is the first-ever series analysis and review of the world's most exciting combat aircraft for the layman. Each  volume emphasizes the unique, the groundbreaking, and the technical characteristics of the aircraft. 

 This book contains photos, drawings, and excerpts from previously "secret" and "restricted" technical manuals  produced by the government and aircraft manufacturers, as well as vintage photos of aircraft during prototype and  manufacturing stages, exploded views, phantom drawings from tech manuals, and more. For military and aviation  enthusiasts. 

Price:

$16.95

Cobra!
Bell Aircraft Corporation 1934-1946 
Hardbound Book
Matthews. 

Meticulously researched and  documented history of the company and the P-39 and P-63 fighters and air racers.  Technical info, biographical backgrounds of the principals, the lend-lease program, and the aircraft in the hands of French, Italian, U.S. and Soviet pilots. 600+ photos and diagrams, 336 pgs., 8½"x 11", hdbd. #0001667  

Price: $59.95

P-39 Airacobra
In Detail & Scale Vol. 63
Kinzey.

Covering both the P-39 Airacobra and the P-63 King Cobra, photographs and drawings illustrate every feature of the aircraft, and color profiles show the "Cobra"  markings. 1/72 3-view drawings were also created exclusively for this book. 79 pgs. with 16 in color, approx. 175 photos, 8½"x 11", sfbd.  

#0002880  Price: $14.95

America's Hundred Thousand
U.S. Production Fighters of WWII 
Dean. 

Covers in detail the eleven fighter typers  produced during WWII. P-40, P-39, P-38, P-47, P-51, Corsair, Hellcat, Wildcat and  others. Includes development, production, combat records, comparative records with  a chronology of combat, and more. 608 pgs., 1000 photos, 8½"x 11", hdbd.

#0001389   Price: $59.95

The 350th Fighter Group

The 350th Fighter Group in the Mediterranean Campaign 2 November, 1942 to 2 May 1945. The group comprised the 345th, 346th, and 347th Fighter Squadrons, flying  against the Luftwaffe during the Moroccan, Tunisian, Sicilian and Italian campaigns in P-39s and P-47s. 80 pgs., 90 photos, 9"x 12", sfbd.

#0001379   Price: $19.95

Attack & Conquer
Stanaway & Hickey. 

The 8th Fighter Group in WWII. The 8th took the first P-39s into combat against the Imperial Japanese Navy. They added victories in P-40s and  P-47s, and finally took the air war to the enemy with P-38s over Rabaul Hollandia. 500 photos, 320 pgs., 8½"x 11", hdbd.

#0001677   Price: $44.95

The story of Bell's Cobras, from their design and introduction, use as  an excellent gun platform for low-level work, and fine ground-attack maneuvers. Also   noteworthy for being very heavily armed for the time, it could absorb considerable  punishment. The book traces the transition to use in the Far East and Russia. The  authors deal in detail with the many criticisms of the plane and give voice to those  who support it. 159 pgs., 200+ B&W photos, 8¾"x 11¾", hdbd.

Should this often maligned fighter rank with  contemporaries, the P-51, P-47 or P-38? This history of the P-39 offers background,  testing, combat history, data on every variant, plus an inventory of all known  surviving examples in the world. 130 photos, 8½"x 11", sfbd.

A Young American Flyer a Long Way from Home Parks. A Harvard graduate, who was  educated by the 5th AAF recounts his experiences flying the P-39 in the SW Pacific.  The P-39, outmoded from the start, was utilized with bravery, humor and a will to  survive by the men of Beaver Squadron, through 1943. The story of the 2nd- rate  P-39 and the men who flew it has been neglected too long. 195 pgs., hdbd.