Synopses & Reviews
FAMOUS FLYERS highlights aviators who influenced popular culture during the early 1900s, World War I and II, and Cold War. This series combines history and pleasure reading in a fast-paced narrative of the lives of some the most famous, and infamous, aviators of the 20th century. Chennault was the leader of the Flying Tigers, who during World War II soared into the skies of war-torn China to fight the Japanese.
Table of Contents
A lousy way to start a war -- Evolution of a fighter pilot -- Letter from the Orient -- Birth of a legend -- A December to remember -- "Without stint or question" -- The Fourteenth Air Force -- Such things as others only dream of.