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The Spirit of Attack - Fighter Pilot Stories (Paperback)
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The Spirit of Attack - Fighter Pilot Stories (Paperback)
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SCRAMBLE In a couple of minutes my wingman and I would be airborne
on another adventure. Sometimes we intercepted an airliner,
sometimes a misplaced B-52 bomber, and sometimes Russian bombers
probing our defenses; Russian warships; MIG fighters; or troops in
contact in Vietnam, calling for napalm only yards from their
positions. Twice it was UFOs - Unidentified Flying Objects This
book is a series of short stories, supported by more than 90
photographs. The first part has my own stories; later stories were
contributed by my fellow pilots. The last story is from WW II of
our P-38 fighters attacking the Romanian oil fields and getting
badly mauled by defending Romanian fighters - and a Romanian
pilot's view of the battle Only the spirit of attack borne in a
brave heart will bring success to any fighter aircraft, to matter
how highly developed the aircraft may be. That quote from Adolf
Galland, an Ace of the German Luftwaffe in WW II, was the motto of
our 317th Fighter Interceptor Squadron in Alaska. The fighter pilot
is a hunter, and his quarry is the most dangerous in the world -
men who want to kill him The best defense is a good offense -
ATTACK The US Air Force had a program called Every Man a Tiger. A
tiger does not kill impulsively or in anger, but plans his attack
carefully and strikes with cool ferocity. We were tigers Fighter
pilots tell stories around the bar, but they seldom write them
down. These stories were written by the fighter pilots themselves
Come with me and hear of the beauty of flight, the mortal danger of
electrical power failure at night in a snowstorm, and the thrill of
attack with 20mm cannons firing right under your feet
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