Bandit Books Bright Mountain Books Canterbury House Publishing Down Home Press Eno Publishers Hub City Press Looking Glass Books Lookout Books/The Publishing Laboratory of UNC Wilmington NewSouth Books Niche Publishing Parkway Publishers More Distributed Publishers

Judge Whedbee In the Footsteps Real Voices Real History Romantic South Taste of History Touring the Backroads

Appalachian Bio/Memoir Children/Young Adult Civil War Coastal Cultural Heritage Current Events/Politics Educational Environment & Nature Fiction Folklore/Ghosts Food & Wine Gift & Holiday Historical Humor Music North Carolina Photography & Art Poetry Sports & Recreation Travel & Outdoors True Crime

Click here for our
Newsletter Archive

Herk
Hero of the Skies
Joseph Earl Dabney

Bright Mountain Books
978-0-914875-40-6
$29.95 hardcover
6 x 9 
496 pages
344 b/w photos; 16 line drawings/maps
Published in 2003
Historical

Herk: Hero of the Skies is the story of the C-130 Hercules aircraft and its involvement in military, scientific, and humanitarian missions around the world. Joe Dabney takes readers through the turboprop’s development by Lockheed Martin and the United States Air Force and recounts many of its heroic deeds, tracking its history from the initial A-model through the current C-130J.