Gary Robert Lester (31 results)
Published by Air University Press, Maxwell Air Force base, AL 1997
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Add to basketSoft Cover. Condition: Fine. 280 pages. Illustrated. Air Combat.
Published by Air University Press., Maxwell Airforce Base, Alabama. 1997
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Add to basketSoft cover (trade paper). Condition: Very Good. Lightly illustrated with black and white photographs. Indexed, with extensive bibliographic resources. 280 pages. Next day shipping guaranteed.
Heaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip-Hop and Beyond (Painted Turtle Press)
Liebler, M. L. [Editor]; Marsh, Dave [Foreword]; Young, Al [Contributor]; Gallert, Jim [Contributor]; Bjorn, Lars [Contributor]; Carner, Gary [Contributor]; Gabriel, Larry [Contributor]; Sinclair, John [Contributor]; Harris, Bill [Contributor]; Heron, W. Kim [Contributor]; Spangler, R. J. [Contributor]; Philpot, Marsha Music [Contributor]; Jones, Robert B. [Contributor]; Boland, S. R. [Contributor]; Smith, Matthew [Contributor]; Martin, Joel [Contributor]; Hurtt, Michael [Contributor]; Graff, Gary [Contributor]; Jordan, Herb A. [Contributor]; Benjaminson, Peter [Contributor]; Boyd, Dr. Melba Joyce [Contributor]; Thomas, Pat [Contributor]; Whitall, freelance writer Susan [Contributor]; Dutkewych, Mike [Contributor]; Jr., Rev. John Rodwan [Contributor]; Morgan, Scott [Contributor]; Wilson, Willy [Contributor]; Moseman, George [Contributor]; Grimshaw, L.E. [Contributor]; Daldin, Herman [Contributor]; Morton, Chris [Contributor]; Allen, Rick [Contributor]; Bangs, Lester [Contributor]; Uhel
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Published by Air University Press, MAxwell Irforce Base, AL 1997
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. 1st printing; 280 clean, unmarked pages. Maps; b/w iIlus (illustrator).
Published by Galileo Magazine, Boston, MA 1978
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Magazine. Standard Size and Format. Staple Bound. First Edition. 96 pages. With color illustrated cover and black/white interior photos and drawings. FINE. All corners fairly pointed. Binding tight, without stress creasing and square. With 3 internal pages with crease to bottom corner. W…ithout tears, other creases or chips. slight wear from handling. Not marked in any way and very bright, glossy and clean. All items carefully wrapped and sent boxed.
More imagesPublished by Galileo Magazine, Boston, MA 1978
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Magazine. Standard Size and Format. Staple Bound. First Edition. 96 pages. With color illustrated cover and black/white interior photos and drawings. AS NEW. All corners pointed. Binding tight, without stress creasing and square. Without tears, creases, bumps or chips. Not marked in an…y way and very bright, glossy and clean. All items carefully wrapped and sent boxed.
Published by Air University Press. 1997. 1997
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Living with the Changing California Coast [Paperback] Griggs, Gary; Patsch, Kiki; Savoy, Lauret; Flick, Reinhard; Fulton-Bennett, Kim; Grove, Karen; Hapke, Cheryl; Lajoie, Ken R.; Lester, Charles F.; Mathieson, Scott; Merritts, Dorothy; Norris, Robert M.; Orme, Antony R.; Pipkin, Bernard; Rust, Derek; Sherman, Douglas; Walker, Robert M. and Weber, Jerry
Griggs, Gary [Editor]; Patsch, Kiki [Editor]; Savoy, Lauret [Editor]; Flick, Reinhard [Contributor]; Fulton-Bennett, Kim [Contributor]; Grove, Karen [Contributor]; Hapke, Cheryl [Contributor]; Lajoie, Ken R. [Contributor]; Lester, Charles F. [Contributor]; Mathieson, Scott [Contributor]; Merritts, Dorothy [Contributor]; Norris, Robert M. [Contributor]; Orme, Antony R. [Contributor]; Pipkin, Bernard [Contributor]; Rust, Derek [Contributor]; Sherman, Douglas [Contributor]; Walker, Robert M. [Contributor]; Weber, Jerry [Contributor];
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Published by Air University Press 1997
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Living with the Changing California Coast
Griggs, Gary [Editor]; Patsch, Kiki [Editor]; Savoy, Lauret [Editor]; Flick, Reinhard [Contributor]; Fulton-Bennett, Kim [Contributor]; Grove, Karen [Contributor]; Hapke, Cheryl [Contributor]; Lajoie, Ken R. [Contributor]; Lester, Charles F. [Contributor]; Mathieson, Scott [Contributor]; Merritts, Dorothy [Contributor]; Norris, Robert M. [Contributor]; Orme, Antony R. [Contributor]; Pipkin, Bernard [Contributor]; Rust, Derek [Contributor]; Sherman, Douglas [Contributor]; Walker, Robert M. [Contributor]; Weber, Jerry [Contributor];
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Published by Air University Press, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama 1997
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Add to basketTrade paperback. Condition: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xiii, [1], 280, [2] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Topics addressed include: Close Air Support, Air Superiority, Pusan, Yalu, Command and Control, Mosquito Operations, Counterinsurgency, Gulf… of Tonkin, Visual Reconnaissance, Air Operations, Commando Sabre, Lam Son 719, Interdiction, Operation Linebacker. Lt. Col. (Ret.) Gary R. Lester, Ph.D. was born August 3, 1947. After graduating from Wichita State University, he followed his father into military service in 1969 and was a veteran combat pilot. He retired from the Air Force in 1990 after 22 years of service that included two tours in Vietnam and earned him the Distinguished Flying Cross, Meritorious Service Medal, Air Medal, and Air Force Commendation Medal, among other honors. After retiring in 1992, he obtained his doctorate in military history from Florida State University and began a second career as a college professor. He was the author of the seminal work, Mosquitoes to Wolves: The Evolution of the Forward Air Controller. In 2004, he returned to the Air Force in a civilian role as an official historian, documenting the war in Iraq. Dr. Lester traces the evolution of US close air support, with special emphasis on Korea and Vietnam. He discusses the differing views of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force at some length and compares close air support in these two conflicts. The author notes the need for close air support in the Gulf War and explores the future of close air support. He punctuates this history and analysis with dramatic experiences of those who made it happen. Forward air controllers (FACs) played a significant part in the Vietnam War from the very start. Largely relegated to airborne duty by the constraints of jungle terrain, FACs began operations as early as 1962. Using makeshift propeller-driven aircraft and inadequate radio nets, they became so essential to air operations that the overall need for FACs would not be completely satisfied until 1969. The FAC's expertise as an air strike controller also made him an intelligence source, munitions expert, communication specialist, and above all, the on-scene commander of the strike forces and the start of any subsequent combat search and rescue if necessary. Present as advisors under Farm Gate, FACs grew even more important as American troops poured into Vietnam after the Gulf of Tonkin incident. The U.S. Air Force (USAF) would swell its FAC complement to as many as 668 FACs in Vietnam by 1968; there were also FACs from the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and allied nations. For the early years of the war USAF manning levels were at about 70% of need; they finally reached 100% in December 1969. The FACs would be essential participants in close air support in South Vietnam, interdiction efforts against the Ho Chi Minh Trail, supporting a guerrilla war on the Plain of Jars in Laos, and probing home defenses in North Vietnam. As the war came to center on the Trail in 1969, the FAC role began to be marginalized. Anti-aircraft (AAA) defenses became steadily more aggressive and threatening along the Trail as the bombing of North Vietnam closed down. The communist enemy moved their supply activities to nighttime, quite literally leaving the FACs in the dark. The American response was twofold. They used fixed-wing gunships with electronic sensors to detect communist trucks, and onboard weaponry to destroy them. They also began putting FACs in jet aircraft and in flareships as a counter to the AAA threat. At about the same time, emplaced ground sensors began to complement and overshadow FAC reconnaissance as an intelligence source. FAC guidance of munitions also began to come into play in 1970. By the time the Vietnam War ended in 1975, the U.S. and its allies had dropped about six times as many tons of bombs as had been dropped in the entirety of World War II. A considerable proportion of this tonnage had been directed by forward air controllers.
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Published by Air University Press, Alabama, 1997. 1997
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Add to basket*Sales/posting to the USA suspended*. Card covers, xiii/280pp. Very light wear to card edges; a near fine copy. Comparable to twentieth century cavalry, early forward air controllers (FAC) probed, observed, and reported enemy activity. Flying rickety, underpowered, and unarmed aircraft, they operated on the leading edge of groun…d combat. The efficient use of airborne FACs never developed in a meaningful way in World War II, with the possible exception of their use in Marine amphibious operations in the Pacific. But the rugged terrain of Korea and the jungle mazes of Vietnam restricted the capabilities of ground controllers to identify targets, thus expanding the need for "eyes in the air." FAC roles changed from those of probing, observing, and reporting, to those of locating targets, marking them for air strikes, and taking an active role in their destruction. This expanded mission resulted in the inevitable evolution of FAC equipment and responsibilities.
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Wild Youth [Switchblade] (Original screenplay for the 1961 film)
John F. Schreyer (director); Robert J. Black Jr., Lester William Berke, Dean Romano, Gary Judis (screenwriters); Carol Ohmart, Robert Hutton, Steve Roland, Jan Brooks (starring)
Published by Gold Air Shows, Amarillo, TX 1961
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Contact seller5-star sellerDraft script for the 1961 film. Copy belonging to actor Robert Arthur, who played Frankie, with his name on title page in manuscript pencil and manuscript pencil and ink annotations, additions and changes to his scenes throughout. Laid in is a one page statement. Three juvenile criminals are being held at a youth detention facil…ity, and decide to break out and head to Mexico. Set in Mexico, shot on location in New Mexico. Red titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriters Robert J. Black Jr, Lester Wm. Berke, and Dean Romano and authors Lester Wm. Berke, and Gary K. Judis. 90 leaves, with last page of text numbered 87. Mechanical duplication, with blue revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads.
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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. KlappentextDr. Lester traces the evolution of US close air support, with special emphasis on Korea and Vietnam. He discusses the differing views of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force…at some length and compares close air support.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Mosquitoes to Wolves | The Evolution of the Forward Air Controller | Gary Robert Lester | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2014 | Military Bookshop | EAN 9781782666578 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.
