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Rupert Red Two: A Fighter Pilot's Life From Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs
In 1945, Second Lieutenant Jack Broughton graduated from West Point with the silver pilot wings of a newly commissioned member of the U.S. Army Air Force (USAAF). Nearly thirty years later, he retired as a full colonel in the United States Air Force (USAF), 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. By the bestselling author of Thud Ridge and Going Downtown.
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. By the bestselling author of Thud Ridge and Going Downtown.
352 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2008
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July 27, 2016
Great book about a fighter pilot
This book is about a man's life and career spent in the cockpit of one fighter aircraft after another. He describes the bureaucracy in the US air force , at a time when he should have been promoted to General and instead got court martialed. I highly recommend this book. The author is very bright, honest, and a great American hero.
This book is about a man's life and career spent in the cockpit of one fighter aircraft after another. He describes the bureaucracy in the US air force , at a time when he should have been promoted to General and instead got court martialed. I highly recommend this book. The author is very bright, honest, and a great American hero.
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