BelleAire Press
BelleAire Press, LLC is a Gainesville, Florida-based publishing organization producing works of historic fiction, non-fiction, and military history. Click here to vist the BelleAire Press website.
New at BelleAire Press
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Korean War Air Combat Videos
See for the first time, air combat film taken by pilots of the 18th Fighter-Bomber Wing during its 37 months of Korean War service is available. A list of other air combat videos that will be posted in the near future.
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Korean War Illustrated Combat Glossary
From "Augur in' and "Boxer Boys" (not what you're thinking), to "Josephine," "Prang," and "Yo-Yo," the colorful lingo of those who fought the up close and personal air war in Korea. Includes many biographies of 18th Wing pilots and airmen, plus photographs illustrating many terms and definitions.
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Norwegian Illustrated Glossary of Cooking, Food and Family
Excerpted from nearly 2,000 entries in Flavors of the Fjords and selected based on their use in cooking, food preparation, household living, and family relationships.
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Video Flavors of the Fjords
Join us to celebrate Syttendemai...without going to Norway! New video of Norway's Syttendemaitog or Independence Day Parade, including the Barnetog, or Children's Parade. Also, Maihaugen and the historic side paddlewheeler Skibladner.
Also from BelleAire Press...
Love, Midgie
"Midgie is a refreshing, true story of a young Florida girl with indomitable spirit who meets each challenge as a new adventure. From the first page the reader is caught up in Midgie's world--a combination of family and friends, as well as a haunted house. The author captures her unshakable spirit--‘Midgie’s magic’--as she moves from one adventure to another."Set in Florida primarily in the 1915-1920 time frame, young Midgie’s mother needs hospitalization and treatment for the after effects of the Spanish flu.
Midgie’s father, a railroad telegrapher living in a small town south of Ocala, must make hard choices regarding how to care for his two children while his wife is being treated. He must work a 12-hour shift, seven days a week. He moves the family to Jacksonville, Florida, into a neighborhood called Springfield, just north of the city’s downtown.
Just as Midgie begins to make new friends in the multi-ethnic neighborhood, her father determines he must send Midgie and her brother, Henry, to stay with relatives—Henry back down to Ocala, Midgie to relatives living in Alabama, Tennessee and South Carolina.
After a horrible experience with the Alabama relatives, Midgie is sent to Chattanooga, Tennessee and then to Hartsville, South Carolina.
During these extended visits, Midgie learns many important lessons about life and how to cope with disappointment and disruptions in her life. When she returns to Springfield, she is able to put her new understanding to good use with her friends.
Based on a true story…
Truckbusters Form Dogpatch
Bowker BookWire Reviews...accorded a 3 1/2 star review, the highest rating of any listed book to Truckbusters From Dogpatch."With more than 1,000 black-and-white photographs and an engaging page layout somewhere between magazine and scrapbook, Truckbusters from Dogpatch is a rich historical document, entertaining read, and ode to the dedication, professionalism, creative problem-solving, and sacrifice of more than 3,500 of the Air Force's finest. Author Tracy D. Connors has done a truly admirable job in writing and assembling this book. From the macroscopic view of the Wing's role in the war, to the workarounds crew chiefs used to keep their Mustangs in the air, Truckbusters from Dogpatch is fascinating, informative, and visceral."
Baited Trap - The Ambush of Mission 1890
by Tracy D. Connors
"This story is a tragic, but wonderful, example of how war may affect the loved ones of those who are lost. It includes a 'gold mine' of documentary and photographic evidence at the family level. I believe the story will resonate with many readers, especially the families of those U.S. Servicemen lost in military operations since 2001. In 'Baited Trap,' deaths in combat, perceived or actual bureaucratic insensitivities, and human failings combine with the sometimes sorrowful and failed--and sometimes encouraging and successful--efforts of loved ones to cope with their respective losses. There are undoubtedly many American families today who would draw a measure of strength and courage from a poignant reminder that they are not the first to experience a war for whom there may never be final closure in this life."