re: WWII books to read....

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EDIT: Robert Mason is the author. If I had to pick one of the above I would pick Chickenhawk.
Mason had balls of steel!

More than half a million copies of Chickenhawk have been sold since it was first published in 1983. Now with a new afterword by the author and photographs taken by him during the conflict, this straight-from-the-shoulder account tells the electrifying truth about the helicopter war in Vietnam. This is Robert Mason’s astounding personal story of men at war. A veteran of more than one thousand combat missions, Mason gives staggering descriptions that cut to the heart of the combat experience: the fear and belligerence, the quiet insights and raging madness, the lasting friendships and sudden death—the extreme emotions of a "chickenhawk" in constant danger.

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In addition to that, once you read "Chickenhawk" there will be no doubt in your mind that you can't sit at the controls of a Huey and fly it as if you had 1000 hrs of flight time logged.

Excellent book.

The Corp & The Officers by W.E.B. Griffin are also excellent. If you choose them, be prepared to read 8-9 novels @ around 800 pages for each series.