David Sears's Such Men as These: The Story of the Navy Pilots Who Flew the PDF

By David Sears

ISBN-10: 0306818515

ISBN-13: 9780306818516

ISBN-10: 0306820102

ISBN-13: 9780306820106

In 1951, James Michener went to Korea to file on a bit identified point of America's stalemated struggle: military aviators. His learn encouraged novel approximately those pilots grew to become an in a single day bestseller and, maybe, the main generally learn booklet ever written approximately aerial combat.

Using Michener's notes, writer David Sears tracked down the particular pilots to inform their riveting, true-life tales. From the icy, windswept decks of plane companies, they penetrated treacherous mountain terrain to strike seriously defended dams, bridges, and tunnels, the place good entrenched Communist anti-aircraft gunners waited to shoot them down. lots of those males turned air wrestle legends, and one, Neil Armstrong, the 1st astronaut to stroll at the moon.

Such males As These brims with action-packed bills of strive against and unforgettable pix of the pilots whose ability and sacrifice made epic history.

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