Air Commando One
Heinie Aderholt and America's Secret Air Wars
$58.36
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
14 July 2026
Summary
Air-dropping agents deep behind enemy lines in clandestine night missions during the Korean War, commanding secret flights into Tibet in 1960 to support the anticommunist guerilla uprising, participating in plans for the 1962 Bay of Pigs invasion—even before the escalation of the Vietnam War, Brigadier General Harry C. “Heinie” Aderholt worked at the heart of both the U.S. Air Force and CIA special operations worldwide. In 1964 he became commander of the famed First Air Commando Wing, fightin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781588344236 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1588344231 |
| Author: | Warren A. Trest |
| Publisher: | Smithsonian Books |
| Imprint: | Smithsonian Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 14 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 153mm x 228mm |
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Critics Review
“Informed readers in military aviation and/or history should be interested in this biographical account of Aderholt’s Air Force career.”—Library Journal
“In this grandly entertaining work, Trest, a former air force historian … puts interviews, archival material and recent scholarship to careful use.”—Publishers Weekly
Warren A. Trest
WARREN A. TREST is a former United States Air Force senior historian. He served as a combat reporter and air power historian during the Korean and Vietnam Wars and the Cold War. While reporting on the Korean War with the Third Infantry Division, he was awarded a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star. Over his distinguished career of more than thirty years as a military historian, he has authored and coauthored over 50 histories and studies.
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