num_pages: 352
description: In 1945 Second Lieutenant Jack Broughton graduated from West Point with the silver pilot wings of a newly commissioned member of the U.S. Army Air Force (USAAF). Nearly thirty years later he retired as a full colonel in the United States Air Force (USAF) an entity that didn't even exist when he first learned to fly. Along the way Colonel Broughton saw duty in virtually every fighter aircraft the Air Corps and then Air Force had to offer.He experienced the birth and coming of age of the U.S. Air Force and its bloodying in combat in Korea and Vietnam. In this his third book Broughton offers readers what is virtually a biography of the U. S. Air Force as it was experienced by one of its finest combat leaders.From his initial duty in postwar Germany as part of the American occupation to air-to-air combat in Korea to his command of the Thunderbirds and two combat tours in Vietnam Broughton describes what it is to meet the enemy in the air--and to fly some of the best-known aircraft in combat. By the bestselling author of Thud Ridge and Going Downtown.
language: English
title: Rupert Red Two: A Fighter Pilot's Life From Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs
publisher: Zenith Press/MBI Publishing Company