Officers in Flight Suits
The Story of American Air Force Fighter Pilots in the Korean War
The United States Air Force fought as a truly independent service for the first time during the Korean War. Ruling the skies in many celebrated aerial battles, even against the advanced Soviet MiG-15, American fighter pilots reigned supreme. Yet they also destroyed virtually every major town and city in North Korea, demolished its entire crop irrigation system and killed close to one million civilians. The self-confidence and willingness to take risks which defined the lives of these men became a trademark of the fighter pilot culture, what author John Darrell Sherwood here refers to as the flight suit attitude. In Officers in Flight Suits,…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8147-8887-5
- EAN: 9780814788875
- Produktnummer: 22572016
- Verlag: NYU Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 247 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 147'747 KB
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