Mud flats to master jet base
Subtitle: fifty years at NAS Oceana
By: by Amy Waters Yarsinske
Publisher: Hallmark Pub.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Glouster Point, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: History
Other titles: NAS Oceana
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Mud Flats, Liberators, Fighters and Privateers * 6; title: A Navy Pilot's Dreams-and Life- End at Hiroshima 24 * The Ace of Aces 30; title: The J-Bird That Saved Christmas 33 :Ace of Spades 34; title: Building for the Future; title: and the Fight 0 36; title: Heroes Can Be Your Wingman 50  The Pioneering Aviator: A Risk-Taker They Called "Slim" 52; title: Family Ties and a Fortuitous Glance 54 * The Pretentious House Called Salisbury Plain 56; title: Ye Chapel of Ease 58 * Joshua James' Legacy 60; title: "Roger, Soucek'"-Attaining Status and a Name * 62; title: The Test Pilot Admiral 88  Tarsiers and Starfighters 94; title: Some Legends Live On in Memory-and Legacies 98  The Legend of the Skull and Bones 102; title: Mach Knockers and Challengers No More 107 0 ATip of the Top Hat tothe Navy's Oldest Squadron 110; title: Farewell, Be-Devilers and Speed Kings of Fighting Seventy-Four 114; title: Phantoms and Intruders * 120; title: Intruder College 152  A Midway Avenger Takes Command 153; title: Diamondbacks and Strike Cats 156  Surveilling Airspace 158  Blue Blasters and;Hornets 159; title: Give 'em Hell, IBaby * 164; title: The Super Tomcat 180 Strike Cat Control-Fighter Wing Atlantic 181; title: Sluggers No More-Well, Almost! 183  Sans-Reproache 187; title: The Last of a Breed; title: Bittersweet Changes * 190; title: "A Sobering Understanding of War and Peace" 200  Fair Winds, Formidable Panthers 203; title: The Haymakers Leave Their Mark 208; title: The Sting of the Hornet-Into the TwentyuFirst Century * 212; title: Valions Making History-From Roosevelt to Roosevelt 228  Adios, Ghostriders 229; title: The Hornet's Nest 233 * Paddles Contact; title: Oceana's Landing Signal Officer School 234; title: The Sweetest Sixteen in the Fleet 236  A Dream to Fly Among the Stars 238; title: The Grim Reapers 239; title: Appendices * 248; title: Oceana Commanding Officers 1943-2001 248  Oceana's World War II Squadrons 250.