Crusader!: Last of the Gunfighters [Audiobook] download free by Paul T. Gillcrist
- Listen audiobook: Crusader!: Last of the Gunfighters
- Author: Paul T. Gillcrist
- Release date: 1997/2/10
- Publisher: SCHIFFER PUBLISHING LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9780887407666
- Rating: 7.31 of 10
- Votes: 691
- Review by: Xavier Duran
- Review rating: 8.6 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/5
- Duration: 3H36M29S in 256 kbps (57.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-12
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG-4 DST, WAV, MPEG4, MP3, WMA, MPEG-4 SLS, FLAC (compression RAR, CPIO, ZIP, RPM)
- Total pages original book: 288
- Includes a PDF summary of 29 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 22M5S (5.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Once known as the 'Last of the Gunfighters', the Vought F-8 Crusader has since become a legend in the histories of the U.S. and French navies, as well as a scourge in the skies over North Vietnam in the late 1960s!nCRUSADER! is a vital oral history of one of the most controversial fighter planes in carrier aviation. A key to the authenticity of this story are the authors personal interviews with sixteen of the seventeen living Crusader pilots who became MiG killers in the Vietnam air war. His analysis of their aerial engagements over North Vietnam from 1965 to 1973 contains some startling surprises, as well as a validation of many of the tactical lessons learned from World War II and Korea. nCRUSADER! also contains personal accounts by F-8 speed record holders such as U.S. Marine Corps Major (now Senator) John Glenn and Captains Bob Dose and 'Duke' Windsor. Other aviation records held by the Crusader, (not so enviable) are told, in anecdotal form, for the first time by the author, an F-8 driver and participant in some of them!nColorful, and sometimes humorous, accounts of events involving the F-8 and 'Crusader Drivers' abound in this chronicle of carrier aviation covering the three decades when this remarkable airplane was an important element of the U.S. Navys carrier strike forces.nRear Admiral Paul T. Gillcrist commanded a fleet Crusader squadron, then a carrier air wing and finally, as a flag officer, became wing commander for all Pacific Fleet fighter squadrons. During his fleet squadron command he completed three carrier deployments to the Tonkin Gulf and flew 167 combat missions in the Crusader for which he was awarded seventeen combat decorations. The author of FEET WET, Reflections of a Carrier Pilot (1990) and TOMCAT, The Grumman F-14 Story (1994), Admiral Gillcrist is well qualified to write the story of the Crusader!
- Other categories, genre or collection: Military Vehicles, Military History, Aircraft, History Of Engineering & Technology, Air Forces & Warfare, Politics & Government
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 55.70 USD
- Dimensions: 215x279x38.1mm
- Weight: 1,680g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Atglen, United States
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