Steve Birdsall
Steve Birdsall of Sydney, Australia, is an aviation writer who has authored many articles and books since the 1960s. He has been published by Air Classics, Flying Review International, Airpower Historian, and the American Aviation Historical Society Journal. His wife is Sandra Birdsall.
Birdsall toured briefly in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, as a correspondent for an Australian magazine. He flew several airborne missions including one in the A-1 Skyraider, about which he later wrote an illustrated history.
It was Birdsall who tracked down and confirmed the existence of 91st Bomb Group combat veteran B-17G Shoo Shoo Baby in the late 1960s, sitting dormant at Creil Air Base, Creil, France.
He should not be confused with American travel writer Stephen S. Birdsall.Published books
- The A-1 Skyraider,
- Log of the Liberators: An Illustrated history of the B-24,
- Hells Angels, Challenge Publishing Co.
- Flying Buccaneers: The Illustrated Story of Kenney's Fifth Air Force,
- B-17 Flying Fortress, TAB Books,
- B-24 in Action,
- Saga of the Superfortress: The Dramatic Story of the B-29 and the Twentieth Air Force,
- Superfortress, the Boeing B-29,
- B-26 Marauder in Action,
- B-17 Flying Fortress in Color,
- B-24 Liberator,
- Claims to Fame: The B-17 Flying Fortress, ;
- Pride of Seattle: The Story of the first 300 B-17Fs,
- Mackay's Flying Fortress: The History of America's Worst Aviation Disaster in the SWPA during World War Two'',
