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World War II Fighter-Bomber Pilot: Valiant Multi-Mission Air War; What It Was Like

World War II Fighter-Bomber Pilot: Valiant Multi-Mission Air War; What It Was Like

Colgan, Bill

Paperback

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ISBN10: 0788445316
ISBN13: 9780788445316
Publisher: Heritage Books Inc
Published: Jun 1 2013
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Fighter-bomber flying and fighting originated in World War I as pursuit pilots strafed and dropped small bombs on the enemy below. However, it was in World War II that the term fighter-bomber emerged, as American fighter pilots combined combat actions of dogfight, bomb/rocket, and strafe into extensive fighter-bomber operations. These operations became universally recognized for their major role in that war and in air power ever since. An official news release at the end of World War II stated: Fighter Squadron Commander, Major Colgan, a top fighter pilot in Europe, in combat August 1943-May 45, CO a full year...he accumulated more missions, decorations, narrow escapes, and friends (ground forces) than the vast majority of other pilots in the war. His vivid account here of courageous fighter-bomber action on varied, deadly, low-altitude missions was written for the general public. It has drawn wide praise as a gripping, magnificent story of people at war and has been acclaimed as an accurate, definitive, vital, long overdue history. It is often cited as the prime, and now a most timely, book on the heritage of current U.S. multi-role fighter pilots/crews and planes: the F-15E, F-16, F/A-18, F-22, and F-35-today's fighter-bombers. Colonel Colgan also served in combat in Korea and Vietnam, held key positions in requirements for and test of new fighters/fighter-bombers, and retired as Commander, 326th Air Division, Hawaii. He was inducted into The Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame, 1996, Top Fighter-Bomber Pilot. In this book he tells far more than ever done before about World War II fighter-bomber pilots and unit ground personnel: their lives; their war; their dedication, duty, valor, and sacrifice. This is their story and legacy.

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