Johnson Robert 1920 1998 (1 results)
Published by Rinehart & Co. New York, Toronto, 1958, 1958
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. xiii, 305 pp. : illustrations OCLC 924229857 LCCN 58009352 LC D790 .J58 Dewey 940.544973 ; blue cloth with slight edge wear, in edge worn color photographic dustjacket ; Thunderbolt! The Extraordinary Story of a World War II Ace is the incredible true life sto…ry of Robert S. Johnson, one of America's leading fighter pilot aces in World War II. His memoir is an action-packed account of how a young man from Lawton, Oklahoma went on to amass 28 enemy kills, the first U. S. Army Air Force pilot in the European theater to surpass Eddie Rickenbacker's World War I tally of 26 enemy planes destroyed. Johnson's detailed, vivid descriptions of close-scrapes with Goering's elite fighters and his numerous other skirmishes makes Thunderbolt! essential reading for World War 2 buffs. ; Martin Caidin was an American author, screenwriter, and an authority on aeronautics and aviation. Caidin began writing fiction in 1957. In his career he authored more than 50 fiction and nonfiction books as well as more than 1,000 magazine articles. ; Robert Samuel Johnson was a fighter pilot with the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. He is credited with scoring 27 victories during the conflict flying a Republic P-47 ; Thunderbolt! is the story of a man, a plane and a fighter group in the deadly air war over Europe in World War II. When Robert S. Johnson returned from the European theatre in 1944 he was the highest-scoring American ace of the war, with 28 confirmed kills against the fighter pilots of the Luftwaffe. The plane he flew was the Republic P-47C Thunderbolt, a rugged 2,000 horsepower fighter that weighed seven tons. British pilots told Johnson that the "Jug" wouldn't stand a chance against the maneuverable German ME-109 and the Focke Wulf 190! But in the hands of aces like Johnson and Gabreski the Thunderbolt proved itself the most deadly fighter plane of the war. At the end of hostilities, Johnson and his comrades of the 56th Fighter Group had shot down more German planes than any fighter group in the E.T.O. During two years of fighting they lost 128 Thunderbolts in combat, but they destroyed 1,006 German aircraft -- a ratio of eight to one against the toughest opposition American pilots have ever met! Thunderbolt. ; price mark on front endpaper, else G/G. Book.
