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Blind Man's Bluff is a great book. Also, if you like submarines I'd recommend:

Rig Ship for Ultra Quiet - Subs from an Enlisted POV. Non-Fiction.

Making a Submarine Officer - A story of the USS San Francisco (SSN 711) - Subs from an Officer POV. Non-Fiction.

Stalking the Red Bear: The True Story of a U.S. Cold War Submarine's Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union - Subs from the Captain's POV. Non-Fiction.

Firing Point - Great story that they based the movie Hunter Killer on. Very different (and much better) than the movie. Fiction.

Red November: Inside the Secret U.S.-Soviet Submarine War - Arguably better than Blind Man's bluff. Various accounts of covert sub ops from '46-'92 and the evolution of associated technology. Non-Fiction (written like Fiction to protect the tech and sources. Reads like a great story.).

Pretty easy to order online these days. Amazon has some good ones starting from an inexpensive but impressive P51 Mustang to the B-17 Flying Fortress. Revell and Monogram always have consistent quality molded parts but the off brands always had the varieties of odd German planes.

The roots or our modern air traffic control system stem from the Berlin Airlift.

Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of The Berlin Airlift-June 1948-May 1949

You do realize it's based on a factually-accurate book, which it follows closely, right?

https://www.amazon.com/Pentagon-Wars-Reformers-Challenge-Guard/dp/1612516009

Obviously actors are going to play up the comedic effect, but the main plot is pretty accurate.

That is a valid comparison.

I wasn't saying the F-35 was a shit plane by making the comparison to the Thunder chief (infact a lot of pilots who flew it said they wouldn't have wanted to fly anything else).

There is a really good documentary on Amazon prime called THUD pilots that goes into this, it is definitely worth a watch if you like military aviation.

If you want to read a fun fictional book of exactly this playing out, I recommend Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising.

I’d like to add Bury Us Upside Down by Don Shepperd and Rick Newman

As well as Tiger Force by Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss

Go read https://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/dp/0316743003

Really good book

Here's a Freewing F-16C

and a FMS 70mm F16 it cost nothing to maintain.
If your new to RC I would go with a T28 as it's very easy to fly.

Probably less safe to fly at a lower altitude over the USSR with a proper landing system than the method they ended up with.

If you want to read more about the programs skunk works did, this was a fun read.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A2DIW3C/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Are you sure you're not confusing the title with "We Were Soldiers Once... and Young" by Hal Moore and Joe Galloway? I've never heard of They Were Soldiers, wonder if it's a different account of the battle.

Amazon has a book by that title but it's about wounded soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan. https://www.amazon.com/They-Were-Soldiers-Americas-Dispatch/dp/1608463710

I enjoyed this book:

Angels Three Six: Confessions of a Cold War Fighter Pilot https://www.amazon.com/dp/1936178575/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_lpL-AbW3ZFP0W

Also, check out Stealth Fighter I read it in a day, couldn't put it down.

I would recommend--

Fiction:

• Fields of Fire by James Webb
  
• My Dying Breath by Ben Reed
  
• Charlie Mike by Leonard B. Scott
  
• The Last Run by Leonard. B Scott (sequel to Charlie Mike)
  
• The Hill also also by Scott
  
  Non-fiction:
  
  
• The Boys of '67 by Andrew Wiest
  
• Hue 1968 by Mark Bowden