TREST, WARREN, 1931-
Biography;
Historian; author. Born– February 13, 1931, Louisville, Mississippi. Parents– Warren A. and Lillian Ersell Trest. Education– East Central Mississippi Junior College; Southern Mississippi University. Married. Reporter, 3rd Infantry Division, Korean War; U.S. Air Force, Vietnam. Senior Historian for U. S. Air Force Historical Research Agency, Montgomery. Purple Heart and Bronze Star Meritorious for military service; Award for Meritorious Civilian Service, 1975; Outstanding Civilian Career Service, 1996. Nominated for the Bancroft Prize for outstanding work in American history.
Source;
Contemporary Authors online; Warren Trest website
Publications;
Air Commando One: Heine Aderholt and America’s Secret Air Wars. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999.
Air Force Roles and Missions: A History. U.S> Government Printing Office, 1998.
Khe Sanh: Operation Niagara. Dalley Book Service Inc., 1993.
Military Unity and National Policy: Some Past Effects and Future Implications. BiblioBazaar, 2012.
Lucky Tiger Combat Operations. Dalley Book Service, 1993
Missing in Paradise. New South Books, 2004.
Nobody but the People: The Life and Times of Alabama’s Youngest Governor. New South Books, 2008.
Once a Fighter Pilot: The Story of Korean War Ace Lt. Gen. Charles G. “Chick” Cleveland. Montgomery: River City Publishers, 2012.
Requiem for a Flower Child.
Joint_Publications:
Wings of Denial: The Alabama Air Guard’s Role at the Bay of Pigs. New South Books,2001.