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Hawkeye : the enthralling autobiography of the top -scoring Israel Air Force ace of aces / Brigadier General Giora Even-Epstein : co-written with Ilan Kfir and Danny Dor ; translated from Hebrew by Anne Harstein Pace.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Epstein, Giora, 1938- author.
- Kfir, Ilan, author.
- Dor, Danny, 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish fighter pilots--Israel--Biography.
- Jewish fighter pilots.
- Fighter pilots--Israel--Biography.
- Fighter pilots.
- Epstein, Giora, 1938-.
- Epstein, Giora.
- Israel. Ḥel ha-aṿir.
- Israel.
- Even-Epstein, Giora, 1938-.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages, 8 unnumberred plates of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Grub Street, [2020]
- Summary:
- For more than thirty years, Giora Even-Epstein flew fighters for the Israel Air Force, achieving recognition as a highly skilled military aviator and the highest-scoring jet-mounted ace with the most number of confirmed victories in the French Mirage. Having overcome numerous hurdles just to learn how to fly, he went on to compile a record of Arab MiGs and Sukhoi kills that bettered any other combat aviators' tally in the entire world. This fast-moving autobiography details his experiences particularly in the intense conflicts of 1967, the Six Day War, and 1973, the Yom Kippur War. The reader shares the cockpit with him as he describes every action he undertook with 101 and 105 Squadron, including the greatest jet-versus-jet air battle in history with four MiG-21 kills in one engagement. His final score was seventeen aerial victories. After his last battle he became commander of the First Jet Squadron, 117, began civilian flying, retrained to command 254 MMR Squadron in the 1982 Lebanon War, and flew the F-16 at the age of fifty before retirement. Along the way he met numerous fighter pilot legends such as Douglas Bader, Al Deere, Pierre Clostermann and Randy Cunningham. Affable and enthusiastic, Giora gained the nickname 'Hawkeye' because of his amazing vision of more than 20/15, enabling him to pick out enemy aircraft long before his squadron mates. His story is of one man's unfaltering dedication to his dreams and his country. As the leading jet ace it is one well worth telling and, critically, it can be told in his own words.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. One Nature Boy on the Kibbutz
- ch. Two War and Evacuation
- ch. Three Not Fit to Be a Pilot
- ch. Four If Not a Pilot, Then a Paratrooper
- ch. Five In Erol's Company; in Raful's Battalion
- ch. Six Fellah and Shepherd
- ch. Seven In Ethiopia with Emperor Haile Selassie
- ch. Eight Epstein Becomes Even
- ch. Nine Back to the Pilot Training Course
- ch. Ten From Top of the Class to... the Helicopter Squadron
- ch. Eleven A Fighter Pilot at Last!
- ch. Twelve Love at First Sight
- ch. Thirteen War and My First Kill
- ch. Fourteen Dogfights in the Desert
- ch. Fifteen Hawkeye
- ch. Sixteen War-and I'm in the Kirya...
- ch. Seventeen Back to Combat
- ch. Eighteen One versus Ten
- ch. Nineteen The Final Battle
- ch. Twenty Lessons in the Air
- ch. Twenty-One Back to the Routine
- ch. Twenty-Two Commander of the First Jet Squadron
- ch. Twenty-Three The Heart Wants the First Fighter Squadron; Sara wants El Al
- ch. Twenty-Four A New Life in El Al
- ch. Twenty-Five Goodbye to the Mirage
- ch. Twenty-Six The Battle Over the F-16
- ch. Twenty-Seven The Last Flight
- ch. Twenty-Eight The Heart.
- Notes:
- With glossary and index.
- Includes index and glossary.
- ISBN:
- 9781911621966
- 1911621963
- OCLC:
- 1141446925
- Publisher Number:
- 99987395762
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