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The Resource Rupert red two : a fighter pilot's life from Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs, Jack Broughton ; [foreword by Dr. Richard P. Hallion]

Rupert red two : a fighter pilot's life from Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs, Jack Broughton ; [foreword by Dr. Richard P. Hallion]

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In 1945 Second Lieutenant Jack Broughton graduated from West Point with the silver pilot wings of a newly commissioned member of the Army Air Corps. Nearly thirty years later, he retired as a full colonel in the United States Air Force, an entity that didn't even exist when he first learned to fly. Along the way Colonel Broughton saw duty in virtually every fighter aircraft the Air Corps and then Air Force had to offer. He experienced the birth and coming of age of the U.S. Air Force and its bloodying in combat in Korea and Vietnam. In this, his third book, Broughton offers readers what is virtually a biography of the U. S. Air Force as it was experienced by one of its finest combat leaders. From his initial duty in postwar Germany as part of the American occupation, to air-to-air combat in Korea, to his command of the Thunderbirds and two combat tours in Vietnam, Broughton describes what it is to meet the enemy in the air--and to fly some of the best-known aircraft in combat
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
352 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates
Contents
  • Stand up and be counted
  • Hanger Six
  • Transition
  • The jug
  • Neubiberg
  • Nellis
  • The Pusan perimeter
  • Pushing north
  • Little red schoolhouse
  • Thunderbird lead
  • Moving on
  • Century series
  • Spitten kittens
  • The killer seat
  • Rolling thunder
  • And then
Isbn
9780760332177
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Rupert red two : a fighter pilot's life from Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs
Title
Rupert red two
Title remainder
a fighter pilot's life from Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs
Statement of responsibility
Jack Broughton ; [foreword by Dr. Richard P. Hallion]
Title variation
Rupert red two
Title variation remainder
a fighter pilots life from Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs
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Genre
Language
eng
Summary
In 1945 Second Lieutenant Jack Broughton graduated from West Point with the silver pilot wings of a newly commissioned member of the Army Air Corps. Nearly thirty years later, he retired as a full colonel in the United States Air Force, an entity that didn't even exist when he first learned to fly. Along the way Colonel Broughton saw duty in virtually every fighter aircraft the Air Corps and then Air Force had to offer. He experienced the birth and coming of age of the U.S. Air Force and its bloodying in combat in Korea and Vietnam. In this, his third book, Broughton offers readers what is virtually a biography of the U. S. Air Force as it was experienced by one of its finest combat leaders. From his initial duty in postwar Germany as part of the American occupation, to air-to-air combat in Korea, to his command of the Thunderbirds and two combat tours in Vietnam, Broughton describes what it is to meet the enemy in the air--and to fly some of the best-known aircraft in combat
Biography type
autobiography
http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
227435
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1925-2014
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Broughton, Jack
Dewey number
  • 358.4092
  • B
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
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True
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Broughton, Jack
  • Air pilots, Military
http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
a fighter pilot's life from Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs
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Rupert red two : a fighter pilot's life from Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs, Jack Broughton ; [foreword by Dr. Richard P. Hallion]
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Publication
Copyright
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Stand up and be counted -- Hanger Six -- Transition -- The jug -- Neubiberg -- Nellis -- The Pusan perimeter -- Pushing north -- Little red schoolhouse -- Thunderbird lead -- Moving on -- Century series -- Spitten kittens -- The killer seat -- Rolling thunder -- And then
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
352 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9780760332177
Isbn Type
(hardbound w/ jacket)
Lccn
2007021896
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • ocn144547089
  • OCoLC
Label
Rupert red two : a fighter pilot's life from Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs, Jack Broughton ; [foreword by Dr. Richard P. Hallion]
Link
Publication
Copyright
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Stand up and be counted -- Hanger Six -- Transition -- The jug -- Neubiberg -- Nellis -- The Pusan perimeter -- Pushing north -- Little red schoolhouse -- Thunderbird lead -- Moving on -- Century series -- Spitten kittens -- The killer seat -- Rolling thunder -- And then
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
352 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9780760332177
Isbn Type
(hardbound w/ jacket)
Lccn
2007021896
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • ocn144547089
  • OCoLC

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