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Double ace : the life of Robert Lee Scott Jr., pilot, hero, and teller of tall tales / Robert Coram.
LIBRA UG626.2.S36 C67 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coram, Robert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scott, Robert Lee, Jr., 1908-2006.
- Scott, Robert Lee.
- United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Group, 23rd.
- United States.
- United States. Air Force--Biography.
- United States. Air Force.
- Fighter pilots--United States--Biography.
- Fighter pilots.
- Generals--United States--Biography.
- Generals.
- World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--China.
- Military campaigns.
- Military operations, Aerial--American.
- China.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 324 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- "Recounts the storied life and military career of the American flying Ace who flew missions in China alongside the "Flying Tigers" during World War II and helped found Georgia's Museum of Aviation,"--NoveList.
- Contents:
- Georgia boy
- Failure
- West Point
- Bugling
- Flying and driving
- Learning the trade
- Dark nights of the soul
- The fortress falls
- Wedding bells and distant trumpets
- Extra duty
- Orchids and pigs and, oh my, the training command
- California dreaming
- War tocsins
- "You are not blooded"
- Hold my beer
- The flight to destiny
- At the end of the world
- The Hump
- Flying Tiger
- Glory
- Leaving China
- Home is the hero
- On the road again
- The book...and the movie
- Good reviews...and bad
- Movie star
- Chiaroscuro
- Twilight
- The more things change
- Still in the race
- Resurrection
- At last
- One more mission
- Mission accomplished.
- Notes:
- "Thomas Dunne Books."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-310) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781250040183
- 1250040183
- 1466835427
- 9781466835429
- OCLC:
- 918994595
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