I get the impression PTTG is looking for contemporaneous mimetic or near-mimetic fiction, i.e. about heroic aviation rather than space wars.
Flying Aces (1928-1945) would seem to be ideal for your purposes; there are some at
http://luminist.org/archives/PU/ . (Usual considerations of period racism/etc. apply.)
Non-fiction, consider the shenanigans around the Washington Naval Treaty, 1922 – Yardley's Black Chamber was reading the Japanese (and others') delegates' communications with their governments, so the US knew exactly how far they would be allowed to make concessions.