CRUSADER! Last of the Gunfighters 9780887407666

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Автор: Paul T. Gillcrist
Название: CRUSADER! Last of the Gunfighters
ISBN: 9780887407666
Издательство: Schiffer
Классификация:

Военно-воздушные силы и военные действия

Военная техника

История инженерного дела и технологий производства

Воздушные судна: общезначимые вопросы

ISBN-10: 0887407668
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 288
Вес: 1.67 кг.
Дата издания: 08/09/2004
Серия: Last of the Gunfighters
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 200+ color and b/w photographs
Размер: 286 x 222 x 26
Читательская аудитория: General (US: Trade)
Подзаголовок: Last of the gunfighters
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Once known as the Last of the Gunfighters, the Vought F-8 Crusader has since become a legend in the histories of the U.S. and French navies, as well as a scourge in the skies over North Vietnam in the late 1960s! CRUSADER! is a vital oral history of one of the most controversial fighter planes in carrier aviation. A key to the authenticity of this story are the authors personal interviews with sixteen of the seventeen living Crusader pilots who became MiG killers in the Vietnam air war. His analysis of their aerial engagements over North Vietnam from 1965 to 1973 contains some startling surprises, as well as a validation of many of the tactical lessons learned from World War II and Korea. CRUSADER! also contains personal accounts by F-8 speed record holders such as U.S. Marine Corps Major (now Senator) John Glenn and Captains Bob Dose and Duke Windsor. Other aviation records held by the Crusader, (not so enviable) are told, in anecdotal form, for the first time by the author, an F-8 driver and participant in some of them! Colorful, and sometimes humorous, accounts of events involving the F-8 and Crusader Drivers abound in this chronicle of carrier aviation covering the three decades when this remarkable airplane was an important element of the U.S. Navys carrier strike forces. Rear Admiral Paul T. Gillcrist commanded a fleet Crusader squadron, then a carrier air wing and finally, as a flag officer, became wing commander for all Pacific Fleet fighter squadrons. During his fleet squadron command he completed three carrier deployments to the Tonkin Gulf and flew 167 combat missions in the Crusader for which he was awarded seventeen combat decorations. The author of FEET WET, Reflections of a Carrier Pilot (1990) and TOMCAT, The Grumman F-14 Story (1994), Admiral Gillcrist is well qualified to write the story of the Crusader!