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Format:

Book

Author:

Pedersen, Dan, 1935- author.

Title:

Topgun : an American story / Dan Pedersen.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher, Date:

New York : Hachette Books, 2019.

Description:

xiv, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Summary:

"The founder of the U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons program, aka "TOPGUN," shares the untold story of how he and eight other young pilots revolutionized the art of aerial combat and created the center for excellence and incubator of leadership that thrives to this day."--Provided by publisher.

Subjects:

Pedersen, Dan, 1935-

Navy Fighter Weapons School (U.S.) -- Biography.

Navy Fighter Weapons School (U.S.) -- History.

United States. Navy -- Officers -- Biography.

Fighter pilots -- United States -- Biography.

Fighter plane combat -- United States -- History.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Aerial operations, American.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Other Title:

Top gun

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

Admission price -- First tribe -- The Navy way -- Fight club -- Where are the carriers? -- The path to disillusionment -- Yankee Station education -- Starting Topgun -- The original bros -- Secrets of the tribe -- Proof of concept -- Topgun goes to war -- The last missing man -- The peace that never was -- End of the Third Temple -- Return with honor -- Topgun and the Tomcat -- Black shoes -- The best and the last -- One more goodbye -- Saving Topgun -- Will we have to lose a war again? (or, back to the future in an F-35).

LCCN:

2018042059

ISBN:

9780316416269

Other Number:

1051136557

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

779942

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

BIO Pedersen