I always wanted to fly : America's Cold War airmen / Wolfgang W.E. Samuel ; with a foreword by Ken Hechler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Samuel, Wolfgang W. E.

Series:

Sixties--primary documents and personal narratives, 1960-1974

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Air pilots, Military--United States--Biography.

Air pilots, Military.

Cold War.

United States. Air Force--Officers--Biography.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 363 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Until now, no book has covered all of Cold War air combat in the words of the men who waged it. In I Always Wanted to Fly , retired United States Air Force Colonel Wolfgang W. E. Samuel has gathered first-person memories from heroes of the cockpits and airstrips. Battling in dogfights when jets were novelties, saving lives in grueling airlifts, or flying dangerous reconnaissance missions deep into Soviet and Chinese airspace, these flyers waged America's longest and most secretively conducted air war.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Part 1: The Berlin Airlift, 1948

1. Men of the Airlift

Colonel Howard S. "Sam" Myers Jr.

First Lieutenant Leonard W. Sweet

First Lieutenant Marshall M. Balfe

Colonel Harold R. Austin

Lieutenant Colonel Edward Gorski

Lieutenant Colonel Joseph F. Laufer

Colonel Robert S. Hamill

2. The Bomber Boys

Colonel Joseph J. Gyulavics

3. "Ramp Rats": The Men Who Kept Them Flying

Master Sergeant Thomas W. Etherson

Part 2: Korea, 1950

4. The F-51 Mustangs from Dogpatch

Colonel Charles E. Schreffler

5. Night Interdiction in the B-26 Invader

Lieutenant Colonel Byron A. Dobbs Jr.

Colonel Richard G. "Dick" Schulz

6. The B-29 Bomber War

7. B-Flight out of Kimpo: Special Operations

Colonel David M. Taylor

Part 3: Strategic Reconnaissance

8. Taming the RB-45C Tornado

9. Recon to the Yalu and Beyond

Master Sergeant Arthur E. Lidard

10. More Secret Than the Manhattan Project

Colonel Marion C. Mixson

Lieutenant Colonel Francis T. Martin Jr.

11. Challenging the Russian Bear 196

12. Flying the Top of the World 215

Colonel Charles L. Phillips Jr.

13. The Last Flight of 3-4290 230

Major George V. Back

Captain Henry E. Dubuy

Lieutenant Colonel Joel J. Lutkenhouse

Lieutenant Colonel Robert J. Rogers

Part 4: Vietnam, 1965

14. Hambone 02

Colonel Ralph L. Kuster Jr.

15. Lincoln Flight

Colonel Kevin A. "Mike" Gilroy

16. Yellowbird

Major Fred E. "Ed" Rider

The Magic of Flying: Concluding Thoughts

Glossary

Bibliography

Interviews, Letters, and Tapes.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-48488-5

9786612484889

1-60473-135-4

OCLC:

567957109