Books : Thunderbolt! The P-47 (Military History (Ibooks))
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by: Martin Caiden, Robert S. Johnson
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 940
EAN: 9780743423977
ISBN: 0743423976
Label: I Books
Manufacturer: I Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 296
Publication Date: August 28, 2001
Publisher: I Books
Sales Rank: 656461
Studio: I Books
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Product Description:
The key to victory in World War II lay in wresting control of the skies from the Nazis. America's most courageous pilots hurled their underrated P-47 Thunderbolts time and again against the Luftwaffe's over-whelming power, and won. This is the true story of one of the greatest Thunderbolt aces of all, Robert S. Johnson: his training, his early failures, his brushes with death and his 28 kills that helped smash the German juggernaut. Step by step, dogfight by dogfight, manoeuvre by manoeuvre, he details daring aerial exploits against monumental odds with America's fabled 56th Fighter Group, a special breed of men who changed the course of history.
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Rating:  - SUPERB ACCOUNT BY AN ACE !!!!
MAJOR JOHNSON'S PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF HIS EXPERIENCES IN TRAINING AND COMBAT OVER THE ETO IS A MUST FOR ALL MILITARY AVIATION ENTHUSIASTS. HE PULLS NO PUNCHES IN DESCRIBING HIS OWN AND OTHER'S MISTAKES AS THE 56th FIGHTER GROUP,HIS UNIT, ORGANIZES IN THE STATES AND PREPARES FOR COMBAT. ALTHOUGH HE IS OBVIOUSLY A MODEST MAN, BOB JOHNSON PROVIDES GREAT INSIGHT INTO HIS OWN CHARACTER,THROUGH WHAT HE SAYS AND DOESN'T SAY, ABOUT HIS SUPERIORS AND FELLOW PILOTS.WRITTEN BY AN ACE AND A # 1 FELLOW, BUY THIS ... Read More
Rating: - The men who flew the P-47
Bob Johnson describes more than the P-47, he describes the men who flew them and the things they did to get into battle. Johnson, a top scoring ace, in the league with Dick Bong and Eddie Rickenbacher failed the gunnery test at the end of fighter school with a score of 4.7 percent but was sent to battle with his unit. In his first battle he pulled off, thinking his plane had a problem because he had never fired all six of the guns on the plane at one time. He tells of how men died when the P-47 ... Read More
Rating:  - An average American boy who became an ace pilot.
Thunderbolt! is ace pilot Major Robert S. Johnson's own account of his days with the celebrated 56th Fighter Group over Europe during World War Two. Johnson's very personable narrative takes the reader from his boyhood days in Lawton, Oklahoma, where his fascination with aviation first developed, through flying lessons, his enlistment and training with the air force, and his many missions over Germany behind the stick of a P-47 Thunderbolt.
The cockpit of the large, sturdy and power Republic ... Read More
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