I always wanted to fly : America's Cold War airmen

Title
  1. I always wanted to fly : America's Cold War airmen / Wolfgang W.E. Samuel.
Published by
  1. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2001.
Author
  1. Samuel, Wolfgang W. E.

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Description
  1. xix, 363 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Summary
  1. Annotation
Subject
  1. United States. Air Force > Officers > Biography
  2. United States. Air Force
  3. Air pilots, Military > United States > Biography
  4. Cold War
  5. Air pilots, Military
  6. Armed Forces > Officers
  7. Luftwaffe
  8. Flugzeugführer
  9. Biografie
  10. Geschichte 1945-1989
  11. United States
  12. USA
Genre/Form
  1. Biographies.
Contents
  1. pt. 1. The Berlin Airlift, 1948. 1. Men of the Airlift. 2. The Bomber Boys. 3. "Ramp Rats": The Men Who Kept Them Flying -- pt. 2. Korea, 1950. 4. The F-51 Mustangs from Dogpatch. 5. Night Interdiction in the B-26 Invader. 6. The B-29 Bomber War. 7. B-Flight out of Kimpo: Special Operations -- pt. 3. Strategic Reconnaissance. 8. Taming the RB-45C Tornado. 9. Recon to the Yalu and Beyond. 10. More Secret than the Manhattan Project. 11. Challenging the Russian Bear. 12. Flying the Top of the World. 13. The Last Flight of 3-4290 -- pt. 4. Vietnam, 1965. 14. Hambone 02. 15. Lincoln Flight. 16. Yellowbird -- The Magic of Flying: Concluding Thoughts.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-351) and index.