by James Young | Dec 2, 2023 | Air Warfare, Alternate History
Wonder No More is now up on Amazon. It’s a solid novella, clocking in at about 179 pages. If you ever wondered what would happen with a more aggressively handled Center Force, Vice Admiral Lee forming TF 34 early, and Taffy Three being, well, Taffy Three then...
by James Young | Aug 10, 2022 | Air Warfare, Alternate History, Warship Wednesday
We’re going to resume Warship Wednesday by talking a bit about torpedo bombing. For those of you who may have stumbled upon this blog due to recent publications or pure happenstance, my primary bread and butter is alternate history. Specifically,...
by James Young | Mar 11, 2022 | Air Warfare, Promotions and Interviews, Writing Business
Greetings all! Popping in really quick to announce the release of Eagles, Ravens, and Other Birds of Prey (Amazon affiliate link). If you were a fan of Barren SEAD, like to read about Wild Weasels, and/or want to get an account of how the USAF got its groove back,...
by James Young | Dec 7, 2021 | Air Warfare, Alternate History
For those of us of a certain age, it seems like “just yesterday” that we were passing Pearl Harbor’s 50th Anniversary. We had a World War II veteran as President, had seemingly just shook off our “Vietnam Syndrome” with a decisive victory...
by James Young | May 23, 2021 | Air Warfare
Badasses, Part II: The Shooters As discussed in the last segment, in February 1944 General Carl Spaatz and his subordinate, Major General Jimmy Doolittle, decided it was time to take the fight to the Luftwaffe. However, deciding to go kick a whole hostile air...
by jamesyoung | Jan 3, 2021 | Air Warfare
You ever get a little distracted working on other projects (i.e., 3 anthologies and a full novel) and neglect an earlier project? Until I looked at the dates, there was no way I thought it’d been a over a year since I last wrote on air combat (Part I, Part II,...