Ironclaw
Subtitle: A Navy Carrier Pilot's Gulf War Experience
Edition: 1st  ed edition
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Published: September 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780688143039
Subjects: Persian Gulf War, 1991; Military - Aviation; Military History - Persian Gulf War; Military Personal Narratives; History - Military / War; Personal narratives, American; Biography/Autobiography; Personal narratives; Middle East; Military - General; Baldwin, Sherman; Aerial operations, American
Description: Just ten days out of land-based training and on the eve of the Persian Gulf War, Lieutenant Junior Grade Sherman Baldwin was assigned to Air Wing Five's EA-6B Prowler squadron - call sign Ironclaw - aboard the U.S.S. Midway. Flying the Prowler attack aircraft, Baldwin, his crew of three flight officers, and the rest of their squadron were responsible for identifying, jamming, and destroying enemy radar.

Ironclaw is one of the most compelling accounts yet of life on a carrier at war. For the readers of Flight of the Intruder and Yeager, Baldwin brilliantly captures the excitement and risk faced by naval aviators.

He takes the reader from belowdecks in the mission-planning room, where the day's combat assignment is handed out, to the deck of the Midway, where jets are catapulted over the Persian Gulf, and into the cockpit - offering an unprecedented look at what it feels like to control one of the world's most sophisticated - and powerful - military machines.