Rupert red two : a fighter pilot's life from Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs / by Jack Broughton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Broughton, Jack, 1925-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Broughton, Jack, 1925-.

Broughton, Jack.

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

Air pilots, Military.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Place of Publication:

St. Paul, Minn. : Zenith, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1945 Second Lieutenant Jack Broughton graduated from West Point with the silver pilot wings of a newly commissioned member of the Army Air Corps. 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 .

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title""; ""CONTENTS""; ""FOREWORD""; ""CHAPTER 1: STAND UP AND BE COUNTED""; ""CHAPTER 2: HANGAR SIX""; ""CHAPTER 3: TRANSITION""; ""CHAPTER 4: THE JUG""; ""CHAPTER 5: NEUBIBERG""; ""CHAPTER 6: NELLIS""; ""CHAPTER 7: THE PUSAN PERIMETER""; ""CHAPTER 8: PUSHING NORTH""; ""CHAPTER 9: LITTLE RED SCHOOLHOUSE""; ""CHAPTER 10: THUNDERBIRD LEAD""; ""CHAPTER 11: MOVING ON""; ""CHAPTER 12: CENTURY SERIES""; ""CHAPTER 13: SPITTEN KITTENS""; ""CHAPTER 14: THE KILLER SEAT""; ""CHAPTER 15: ROLLING THUNDER""; ""CHAPTER 16: AND THEN""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-61673-967-3