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Throw a Nickel on the Grass

Author : Norman Phillips
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466968907
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Throw a Nickel on the Grass written by Norman Phillips and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rick North has never spent much time on reflection. For twenty-five years, he has immersed his body and soul in the US Air Force as a forward-looking, self-assured officer. Yet in North's early life, there were no absolutes. Now, as he lies in a hospital bed in Southeast Asia, the victim of a futile war, he begins to contemplate his past as he is carried further and further away from the only life he has known. Raised by illiterate Polish grandparents, North develops the independence and insatiable curiosity that eventually leads him on an adventurous journey through World War II, where he flies in the Italian campaign and transforms into a steely-eyed, decorated fighter pilot. As he rises in the ranks to colonel, he edges closer to bureaucracy and some of its leaders, dimming his once idealistic views. But after he reluctantly volunteers for the Vietnam War, he is shot down in Laos and saved in a daring rescue--an event that alters his life forever. Based on a true story, Throw a Nickel on the Grass shares one man's incredible and challenging journey through life and war, and his ultimate discovery of true happiness.

Five Nickels

Author : Jim “Boots” Demarest
Publisher : Permuted Press
ISBN 13 : 1637582609
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Five Nickels written by Jim “Boots” Demarest and published by Permuted Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On February 15, 1991, Captain Steve Phillis was leading his wingman, Lieutenant Rob Sweet, on their thirtieth combat mission of Desert Storm flying the A-10 Warthog. They were tasked with attacking Iraq’s vaunted Medina Division of the Republican Guards—by far their most dangerous mission of the war. Near the end of their attacks, Rob was forced to eject from his aircraft and began a five-minute parachute ride down to the troops he and Steve had just finished bombing. Steve, an experienced combat search and rescue pilot and distinguished graduate of the Air Force Fighter Weapons School, immediately sprang into action to save the life of his wingman. After spending three minutes and forty-five seconds circling Sweet, Steve’s A-10 was hit by an enemy surface-to-air missile. Five Nickels: True Story of the Desert Storm Heroics and Sacrifice of Air Force Captain Steve Phillis, is a love story. Steve loved his family, fiancée, fellow fighter pilots, country, wingman, and life. Yet he was willing to risk them all to fight—and if necessary, die—for what he believed in. Steve’s story—from Rock Island, Illinois to the Air Force Academy, to his life as an A-10 fighter pilot—is the stuff of heroes. As Steve’s Academy classmate and boxing partner, fellow fighter pilot and “Top Gun” graduate, Jim “Boots” Demarest is uniquely qualified to tell Steve’s story. A gifted storyteller, Boots shares his experience with Steve from the Academy Boxing Team to paint a complete picture of the man who had so much to live for, yet was willing to risk it all to do the right thing. Five Nickels is filled with the details of Steve’s life and loves that will capture, enchant, and pull readers in. His story of combat heroics in the face of incredible danger will captivate and inspire all who read it.

Scream of Eagles

Author : Robert K. Wilcox
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743497244
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book Scream of Eagles written by Robert K. Wilcox and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of "Wings of Fury" provides a dramatic account of the U.S. Navy's Top Gun fighter pilots and how they took back the skies over Vietnam. Filled with first-person accounts, this dramatic true story is now reissued with a new Foreword by the author.

Scrappy

Author : Howard C. “Scrappy” Johnson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786454989
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Scrappy written by Howard C. “Scrappy” Johnson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From World War II to high above the Earth to Vietnam, this memoir tells the story of fighter pilot Howard C. "Scrappy" Johnson. Beginning with his early years in Knoxville, Tennessee, the book follows Johnson through his career at the University of Louisville and his enlistment as an Air Force cadet at the onset of World War II. After World War II, Johnson served a tour of duty in the skies over Korea and in 1958 broke the world's altitude record by over 14,000 feet, soaring at 91,249 feet in his F-104A Starfighter. For this remarkable feat he was awarded the Collier Trophy, aviation's highest honor. In Vietnam, he was director of operations for the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing and was instrumental in founding the Red River Valley Fighter Pilots, a group dedicated to the remembrance of fallen and captured airmen. Written with panache, this work records the bigger-than-life adventures of one of America's finest.

Bury Us Upside Down

Author : Rick Newman
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 : 0307414701
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Bury Us Upside Down written by Rick Newman and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They had the most dangerous job n the Air Force. Now Bury Us Upside Down reveals the never-before-told story of the Vietnam War’s top-secret jet-fighter outfit–an all-volunteer unit composed of truly extraordinary men who flew missions from which heroes are made. In today’s wars, computers, targeting pods, lasers, and precision-guided bombs help FAC (forward air controller) pilots identify and destroy targets from safe distances. But in the search for enemy traffic on the elusive Ho Chi Minh Trail, always risking enemy fire, capture, and death, pilots had to drop low enough to glimpse the telltale signs of movement such as suspicious dust on treetops or disappearing tire marks on a dirt road (indicating a hidden truck park). Written by an accomplished journalist and veteran, Bury Us Upside Down is the stunning story of these brave Americans, the men who flew in the covert Operation Commando Sabre–or “Misty”–the most innovative air operation of the war. In missions that lasted for hours, the pilots of Misty flew zigzag patterns searching for enemy troops, vehicles, and weapons, without benefit of night-vision goggles, infrared devices, or other now common sensors. What they gained in exhilarating autonomy also cost them: of 157 pilots, 34 were shot down, 3 captured, and 7 killed. Here is a firsthand account of courage and technical mastery under fire. Here, too, is a tale of forbearance and loss, including the experience of the family of a missing Misty flier–Howard K. Williams–as they learn, after twenty-three years, that his remains have been found. Now that bombs are smart and remote sensors are even smarter, the missions that the Mistys flew would now be considered no less than suicidal. Bury Us Upside Down reminds us that for some, such dangers simply came with the territory.

War Short Stories: The Combat During The Vietnam War

Author :
Publisher : Evelyn Cabrera
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Short Stories: The Combat During The Vietnam War written by and published by Evelyn Cabrera. This book was released on 2022-07-25 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A military pilot is a tactical pilot prepared to participate in an aerial battle, air-to-ground battle, and some of the time electronic fighting while in the cockpit of a contender airplane. Military pilots go through particular preparation in airborne fighting and dogfighting (short proximity flying battle). A military pilot with something like five aerial kills becomes known as a pro. This is an exceptional investigation of the perspective of a pilot as he encounters everything from the massacre of an accident to the delight of flying through an elegant night sky, from the strange political plans of Washington to his perilous dependence on risk. The creator gives a blending and close-to-home portrayal of one man's excursion into airborne damnation and back, describing the delights and the aggravation. the successes and the misfortunes. furthermore, eventually, the return

A Semi-Secret War: The Duty During The Vietnam Air War

Author :
Publisher : Evelyn Cabrera
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Semi-Secret War: The Duty During The Vietnam Air War written by and published by Evelyn Cabrera. This book was released on 2022-07-25 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A military pilot is a tactical pilot prepared to participate in an aerial battle, air-to-ground battle, and some of the time electronic fighting while in the cockpit of a contender airplane. Military pilots go through particular preparation in airborne fighting and dogfighting (short proximity flying battle). A military pilot with something like five aerial kills becomes known as a pro. This is an exceptional investigation of the perspective of a pilot as he encounters everything from the massacre of an accident to the delight of flying through an elegant night sky, from the strange political plans of Washington to his perilous dependence on risk. The creator gives a blending and close-to-home portrayal of one man's excursion into airborne damnation and back, describing the delights and the aggravation. the successes and the misfortunes. furthermore, eventually, the return

Emergency War Plan

Author : Sean M. Maloney
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640124195
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Emergency War Plan written by Sean M. Maloney and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emergency War Plan examines the theory and practice of American nuclear deterrence and its evolution during the Cold War. Previous examinations of nuclear strategy during this time have, for the most part, categorized American efforts as “massive retaliation” and “mutually assured destruction,” blunt instruments to be casually dismissed in favor of more flexible approaches or summed up in inflammatory and judgmental terms like “MAD.” These descriptors evolved into slogans, and any nuanced discussion of the efficacy of the actual strategies withered due to a variety of political and social factors. Drawing on newly released weapons effects information along with new information about Soviet capabilities as well as risky and covert espionage missions, Emergency War Plan provides a completely new examination of American nuclear deterrence strategy during the first fifteen years of the Cold War, the first such study since the 1980s. Ultimately what emerges is a picture of a gargantuan and potentially devastating enterprise that was understood at the time by the public in only the vaguest terms but that was not as out of control as has been alleged and was more nuanced than previously understood.

Choppers Up!

Author : S. W. Henry
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1412031877
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Choppers Up! written by S. W. Henry and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timothy Dundee, a young US army helicopter pilot of the Vietnam War attempts to overcome the incongruities of this "unwinable" war, while his Vietnamese counterpart, Dinh Chau, plots his destruction.

From F-4 Phantom to A-10 Warthog

Author : Steve Ladd
Publisher : Air World
ISBN 13 : 1526761254
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book From F-4 Phantom to A-10 Warthog written by Steve Ladd and published by Air World. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This behind-the-scenes account of a USAF career is “an absorbing read, written with the classic humor fighter pilots seem to have” (Flight Line Book Review). From Baron von Richthofen to Robin Olds, the mystique of the fighter pilot endures. The skill, cunning, and bravery that characterizes this distinctive band of brothers is well known, but there are other dimensions to those who take to the skies to do battle that have not been given the emphasis they deserve—until now. You don’t have to be an aviation aficionado to enjoy Colonel Steve Ladd’s fascinating personal tale, woven around his twenty-eight-year career as a fighter pilot. This extremely engaging account follows a young man from basic pilot training to senior command through narratives that define a unique ethos. From the United States to Southeast Asia, Europe to the Middle East, the amusing and tongue-in-cheek to the deadly serious and poignant, this is the lifelong journey of a fighter pilot. The anecdotes are absorbing, providing an insight into life as an Air Force pilot, but, in this book, as Colonel Ladd stresses, the focus is not on fireworks or stirring tales of derring-do. Instead, this is an articulate and absorbing account of what life is really like among a rare breed of arrogant, cocky, boisterous, and fun-loving young men who readily transform into steely professionals at the controls of a fighter aircraft. “This book will appeal to a variety of readers with its Vietnam War combat stories and accounts of flying the Warthog in Cold War Europe. Fun, flying, international experiences—you won’t want to put it down.” —Aviation News

Throw a Nickel on the Grass

Author : NORMAN PHILLIPS
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466969326
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Throw a Nickel on the Grass written by NORMAN PHILLIPS and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rick North has never spent much time on reflection. For twenty-five years, he has immersed his body and soul in the US Air Force as a forward-looking, self-assured officer. Yet in Norths early life, there were no absolutes. Now, as he lies in a hospital bed in Southeast Asia, the victim of a futile war, he begins to contemplate his past as he is carried further and further away from the only life he has known. Raised by illiterate Polish grandparents, North develops the independence and insatiable curiosity that eventually leads him on an adventurous journey through World War II, where he flies in the Italian campaign and transforms into a steely-eyed, decorated fighter pilot. As he rises in the ranks to colonel, he edges closer to bureaucracy and some of its leaders, dimming his once idealistic views. But after he reluctantly volunteers for the Vietnam War, he is shot down in Laos and saved in a daring rescuean event that alters his life forever. Based on a true story, Throw a Nickel on the Grass shares one mans incredible and challenging journey through life and war, and his ultimate discovery of true happiness.

Armageddon

Author : Leon Uris
Publisher : Trident E-Book Distribution Services
ISBN 13 : 1475606214
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (756 download)

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Download or read book Armageddon written by Leon Uris and published by Trident E-Book Distribution Services. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of World War II, American army officer Captain Sean O’Sullivan is commissioned with rebuilding Berlin. Reeling from the death of his brothers at German hands and faced with the direct horrors of the Holocaust, O’Sullivan struggles against his animosity towards the nation he is helping restore. Meanwhile, Soviet forces blockade Germany in a bid for power, and the Western Allies must unite to prevent a communist takeover. When the airlift begins, the Allies find their deepest convictions tested as they fight against a threat even more dangerous than Hitler. Meticulously researched, this New York Times-bestselling novel gives a historically accurate account of the early days of the Cold War and the fight for German redemption. “Magnificent. The great drama of the Berlin airlift . . .” —The Columbus Dispatch “A vast panorama of people and places . . . dramatic moment after dramatic moment in a throbbing tempo.” —New York Herald Tribune

Air Force Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Air Force Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Air Force and Space Digest

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Air Force and Space Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cold War Fighter Pilots Songbook

Author : Fortuna Call Sign:
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3758305330
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (583 download)

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Download or read book Cold War Fighter Pilots Songbook written by Fortuna Call Sign: and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-26 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compilation of the book contains not all the songs Fighter Pilots sung during the Cold War era, but quiet a lot. The sources were exclusively my collection of unpublished Squadron Songbooks throughout the english speaking Fighter Pilots Community. They reflect the sheer emotions, the black humors of ill fated conflicts and the absence of women during their deployments. At the time the compilation is published, most of the songs are already banned from the Squadrons and O-Clubs and within short time they will be forgotten as a Social Squadron Part of a special Breed of Aviators during the 60s trough 90s. Some songs contain words, which were used only at the bar after some beer.

Entertaining War

Author : Lynn Carroll
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450219969
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Entertaining War written by Lynn Carroll and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-04-22 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lieutenant Colonel Laura Fox Den is the first woman to command an F-22 Raptor squadron. Widowed five years before in a terrorist attack, she is left with two kids and a heavy psychological burden. That burden explodes when an American hacker, an avid video gamer, targets her childrens video games, and causes a Raptor in her squadron to crash. This action precipitates a surprise war on the Korean Peninsula. Kim Jong-il, the Dear Leader of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, tries to use the outbreak of war for his latest perverted agenda. Den is about to lead her Raptor squadron to war in the Pacific Rim when another cyber attack comes from a totally unexpected source that changes her orders and her life. Faced with entertaining war, Lieutenant Colonel Den has to prioritize her responses as a mother, a woman, a war-fighter and a commander. Assisted by her mentor and close friend, Colonel John Wart Hogge, she becomes immersed with other secretive players trying to stop the conflict before it destroys the peace in Asia, revives what has been called The Forgotten War, and kills millions of refugees caught between two armies.

From Jeep Driver to General

Author : Jesse M. Allen
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1613461259
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book From Jeep Driver to General written by Jesse M. Allen and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retired General Jesse Allen saw it all in his military career. An army jeep driver in the U.S. Army Air Corps serving General Patton's Third Army in World War II, an air force fighter pilot in Korea, and a fighter squadron commander in Vietnam, Allen held every rank from private to two-star general. A cultural history as well as a memoir, From Jeep Driver to General reveals an insider's perspective of the U.S. military during some of its most significant triumphs and failures. General Allen offers his insights on racial divides in the military, the policy decisions that led to the loss of thousands of American lives in Korea and Vietnam, and a number of Cold War standoffs with Russian interests around the world. As an operations officer in Tactical Air Command, General Allen was even part of a team tasked with outlining plans to invade Cuba in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Written with candor, directness, and the bravado of a fighter pilot, From Jeep Driver to General tells the story of a man from humble beginnings who rose to the highest ranks of the greatest military in the world. General Allen had a front-row seat at events that never made it to the newspapers or history books. The general recounts these events in vivid detail as he provides a window into contemporary American history.