Lords of the Sky: Fighter Pilots and Air Combat, from the Red Baron to the F-16 Dan Hampton
Carrier Pilot
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- 96 Ratings
4.2
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- 12H 47min
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- English
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Biographies
In 1942 Norman Hanson learned to fly the Royal Navy's newest fighter: the U.S.-built Chance Vought Corsair. Fast, rugged, and demanding to fly, it was an intimidating machine. But in the hands of its young Fleet Air Arm pilots it also proved to be a lethal weapon.
Posted to the South Pacific aboard HMS Illustrious, Hanson and his squadron took the fight to the Japanese. Facing a desperate and determined enemy, Kamikaze attacks, and the ever-present dangers of flying off a pitching carrier deck, death was never far away.
Brought to life in vivid, visceral detail, Carrier Pilot is one of the finest aviators' memoirs of the war; an awe-inspiring, thrilling, sometimes terrifying account of war in the air.
© 2017 Tantor Media (Audiobook): 9781541473515
Release date
Audiobook: 20 July 2017
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