Fast movers
Subtitle: America's jet pilots and the Vietnam experience
By: John Darrell Sherwood
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: United States. -- Air Force -- History -- Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Aerial operations, American; Air pilots, Military -- United States -- Biography
Description: "In Fast Movers, official navy historian John Sherwood offers an authoritative social history of the air war, focused around fourteen of these aviators - from legends like Robin Olds, Steve Ritchie, and John Nichols to lesser-known but equally heroic fighters like Roger Lerseth and Ted Sienecki.".

"Sherwood draws on nearly 300 interviews to tell stories of great pilots and great planes in the words of the men themselves. Fliers recall jets such as McDonnell Douglas's famous F-4 Phantom, "a Corvette with wings"; the F-05 Thunderchief, the workhorse of the war; the F-8 Crusader, the last of the gun fighters; and the block-nosed but revolutionary A-6 Intruder with its fully computerized attack systems, terrain mapping radar, and digital all-weather navigation system."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-257) and index