TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pedersen,Dan
TI  - Topgun: an American story 
SN  - 9780316416269
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Hachette Books
KW  - Pedersen, Dan,
KW  - Navy Fighter Weapons School (U.S.)
KW  - Biography
KW  - History
KW  - United States
KW  - Navy
KW  - Officers
KW  - Fighter pilots
KW  - Fighter plane combat
KW  - Vietnam War, 1961-1975
KW  - Aerial operations, American
KW  - Personal narratives
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (various pages) and index; Prologue. Palm Desert, California, 2018 -- 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) -- Topgun officers in charge and commanding officers
N2  - "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
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