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Rupert Red Two: A Fighter Pilot's Life From Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs

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 U.S. Army Air Force . 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. By the bestselling author of Thud Ridge and Going Downtown.

Language: English

Pages: 352

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Zenith Press/MBI Publishing Company

Release: January 15, 2008

ISBN: 0760332177

ISBN 13: 9780760332177

Rupert Red Two: A Fighter Pilot's Life From Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs

Richard P. Hallion

4/5 ( ratings)

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 . 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. By the bestselling author of Thud Ridge and Going Downtown.

Language: English

Pages: 352

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Zenith Press/MBI Publishing Company

Release: January 15, 2008

ISBN: 0760332177

ISBN 13: 9780760332177

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