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020 _a9780316416269
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049 _aNFGA
092 _a358.43
_bP371
100 1 _aPedersen, Dan,
_d1935-
_eauthor.
_9391364
245 1 0 _aTopgun :
_ban American story /
_cDan Pedersen.
246 _aTop gun
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bHachette Books,
_c2019.
300 _axiv, 305 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations, portraits (some color) ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (various pages) and index.
505 0 _aPrologue. 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.
520 _a"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.
600 1 0 _aPedersen, Dan,
_d1935-
_9391364
610 2 0 _aNavy Fighter Weapons School (U.S.)
_vBiography.
_9391365
610 2 0 _aNavy Fighter Weapons School (U.S.)
_xHistory.
_9391366
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bNavy
_xOfficers
_vBiography.
_9157730
650 0 _aFighter pilots
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
_954322
650 0 _aFighter plane combat
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
_9391367
650 0 _aVietnam War, 1961-1975
_xAerial operations, American.
_958581
650 0 _aVietnam War, 1961-1975
_vPersonal narratives.
_9391368
942 _2ddc
_cBOOK