Fast Movers: Jet Pilots and the Vietnam Experience
- List Price: $25.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Free Press
- Publish date: 01/01/2007
Description:
The American air war over Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia spanned twenty-five years. The United States dropped more than eight million tons of bombs and lost more than 8,588 aircraft. More than half the money spent during the war went to air operations. Yet this "war of the skies" has remained one of the least examined and understood aspects of that long conflict.
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In Fast Movers, John Sherwood, a staff historian of the U.S. Navy, focuses on fourteen pilots, including legendary aces Robin Olds and Steve Richie, and provides the most revealing look we have ever had of the war and its aviators. From their first missions to their years as POWs, Sherwood lets these men tell their engrossing stories and shows how and why, in contrast to the soldiers on ground, they never lost the will to fight.
Fast Movers is a penetrating examination of the warriors who always put their squadron first.
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