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Scream of Eagles: The Dramatic Account of the U.S. Navy's Top Gun Fighter Pilots and How They Took Back the Skies Over Vietnam Mass market paperbound - 2005
by Robert K. Wilcox
Summary
The mission:
Become the most skilled, highly-trained, and deadliest
fighter pilots in the world.
The place: TOP GUN
In the darkest days of the Vietnam War, the U.S. Navy's kill ratio had fallen to 2:1 -- a deadly decline in pilot combat effectiveness. To improve the odds, a corps of hardened fighter pilots founded the Fighter Weapons School, a.k.a. TOP GUN. Utilizing actual enemy fighter planes in brutally realistic dogfights, the Top Gun instructors dueled their students and each other to achieve a lethal new level of fighting expertise. The training paid off. Combining the latest weaponry and technology, mental endurance, and razor-sharp instincts, the Top Gunners drove the Navy's kill ratio up to an astounding 12:1, dominating the skies over Vietnam.
This gripping account takes you inside the cockpit for an adventure more explosive than any fiction -- in a dramatic true story of the legendary military school that has created the most dangerous fighter pilots the world has ever seen.
Become the most skilled, highly-trained, and deadliest
fighter pilots in the world.
The place: TOP GUN
In the darkest days of the Vietnam War, the U.S. Navy's kill ratio had fallen to 2:1 -- a deadly decline in pilot combat effectiveness. To improve the odds, a corps of hardened fighter pilots founded the Fighter Weapons School, a.k.a. TOP GUN. Utilizing actual enemy fighter planes in brutally realistic dogfights, the Top Gun instructors dueled their students and each other to achieve a lethal new level of fighting expertise. The training paid off. Combining the latest weaponry and technology, mental endurance, and razor-sharp instincts, the Top Gunners drove the Navy's kill ratio up to an astounding 12:1, dominating the skies over Vietnam.
This gripping account takes you inside the cockpit for an adventure more explosive than any fiction -- in a dramatic true story of the legendary military school that has created the most dangerous fighter pilots the world has ever seen.
First line
Dan Arthur Pedersen could see the contrails of two jet engines as far as eighty miles away, at the edge of the high desert east of Los Angeles.
Details
- Title Scream of Eagles: The Dramatic Account of the U.S. Navy's Top Gun Fighter Pilots and How They Took Back the Skies Over Vietnam
- Author Robert K. Wilcox
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Pocket Star, NY
- Date March 1, 2005
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780743497244 / 0743497244
- Weight 0.33 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 6.85 x 4.18 x 0.86 in (17.40 x 10.62 x 2.18 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Aerial operations,, Fighter plane combat - United States -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005274651
- Dewey Decimal Code 358
Media reviews
"Gripping narrative....Wilcox is very good at describing the three-dimensional world of dogfighting....Exciting."
-- Publishers Weekly
-- Publishers Weekly
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