George Preddy, Top Mustang Ace

Samuel L. Sox Jr.

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ISBN 10: 0966904206 ISBN 13: 9780966904208

Published by Preddy Memorial Foundation March 1, 1999, Greensboro, Nc, 1999

Language: English

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192 pp + Index Illustrated by rare photographs A biography of the 27-victory Ace.

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Title

George Preddy, Top Mustang Ace

Publisher

Preddy Memorial Foundation March 1, 1999, Greensboro, Nc

Publication Date

1999

Language

English

ISBN 10

0966904206

ISBN 13

9780966904208

Binding

Soft cover

Condition

Very Good+

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This is a biography of Major George E. Preddy, Jr. who became the leading active ace in the European Theater of Operations during World War II. When he was killed on Christmas Day 1944 by Allied ground fire, he was the top P-51 Mustang ace of all time, with 27 aerial and five ground victories. George's younger brother, Bill, was killed on April 17, 1945 while strafing an enemy aerodrome near Prague. A chapter is devoted to his short career in which he claimed two aerial victories.

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Joe Noah started writing George Preddy's biography in 1955 while he was an officer in the Air Force. In 1974 he published the first edition, Wing God Gave My Soul. In 1991 Joe & Sam Sox revised the book for publication by Motorbooks International. Joe Noah spent two years in the US Marine Corps, seven in the Air Force, and five years working for the Air Force think-tank, The Rand Corporation. Joe received a Master of Science degree from Stanford University in 1955 where he specialized in engineering-economics. He retired from his own firm in 1983, a firm that specialized in cost-benefit analysis. Sam Sox retired from his career in insurance as a certified life underwriter.

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