The Aviators is part of the Brotherhood of War series, all novels: The Lieutenants, 1983; The Captains, 1983; The Majors, 1984; The Colonels, 1985; The Berets, 1985; The Generals, 1986; The New Breed, 1987. Each novel in the series stands independently as a story, but chronicles the adventures of the same general set of characters (with other characters entering and leaving in each novel), beginning with the introduction of Bob Bellmon in battle in 1942 and ending with Craig Lowell's retirement in the early 1970s.

Griffin's Men At War series, written under the pseudonym Alex Baldwin, is very closely related the Brotherhood of War and Corps series (in some bookstores, the Baldwin titles are placed with the better-known and better-selling Griffin titles). Although there are no characters or plot lines that bridge between the series, the familiar Griffin themes are there: the poor boy upon whom is bestowed glory, honor, and (usually) promotion to...