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'I'm a 61-year-old ex-Top Gun ready to fight Russia - the West needs to man up'
A former top US fighter pilot has told the Express that he and many of his retired colleagues are ready to take to the skies again to help Ukraine defeat Vladimir Putin's Russia. Dan Hampton has been described as the "best F-16 pilot in American history" and has 151 combat missions to his credit. The 61-year-old retired lieutenant colonel graduated from Fighter Weapon School, which he described as being like "Navy Top Gun School on steroids".
The Astonishing World War II Saga of One Man's Defiance and Indomitable Spirit - KSCJ 1360
Author: Dan Hampton Book: VALOR: The Astonishing World War II Saga of One Man’s Defiance and Indomitable Spirit Publishing: St. Martin’s Press (May 3, 2022) https://kscj.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Dan_Hampton_to_air.mp3 Synopsis (from the Publisher): Valor is the magnificent story of a genuine American hero who survived the fall of the Philippines and brutal captivity under the Japanese, from New York Times bestselling author Dan Hampton.
OPERATION VENGEANCE
For Howard Zinn, long-time civil rights and anti-war activist, history and ideology have a lot in common. Since he thinks that everything is in someone's interest, the historian—Zinn posits—has to figure out whose interests he or she is defining/defending/reconstructing (hence one of his previous books, The Politics of History).
Learn Something New: Historical narrative nonfiction
Who says history has to be boring?
Dan Hampton - Biography & Interviews
Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Dan Hampton flew 151 combat missions during his twenty years (1986-2006) in the United States Air Force. For his service in the Iraq War, Kosovo conflict, and first Gulf War, Col. Hampton received four Distinguished Flying Crosses with Valor, a Purple Heart, eight Air Medals with Valor, five Meritorious Service medals, and numerous other citations. He is a graduate of the USAF Fighter Weapons School, USN Top Gun School (TOGS), and USAF Special Operations School.
Angel of Death | HistoryNet
An F-16 Wild Weasel pilot recounts a dangerous mission during Operation Iraqi Freedom in which he helped save a group of trapped Marines. From the forthcoming book Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat by One of America’s Deadliest F-16 Aviators, by Dan Hampton. ©2012 Dan Hampton. To be published on October 2, 2012, by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Reprinted by permission. “C’mon…c’mon…” I gritted my teeth.
Lords of the Sky
Lords of the Sky: Fighter Pilots and Air Combat, From the Red Baron to the F-16 The title of this massive tome says it all: Fighter pilots have commanded the battlefield’s third dimension from World War I to the present. In making his case, Dan Hampton is not exactly impartial. As a former U.S. Air Force F-16 driver steeped in the profession’s traditions, he accumulated more than 600 combat hours over Iraq and Kosovo.
Vietnam's Wild Weasels | HistoryNet
By the end of the Vietnam War, "Wild Weasel" crews flew the very capable Republic F-105G. These two Thunderchiefs are armed with AGM-45 Shrike anti-radar missiles. A band of daring fliers team up in a classified program to take out the radars guiding their biggest threat—Soviet SA-2 Guideline missiles. Like many American boys who had grown up during World War II, Stan Goldstein was fascinated with aviation.
Target Tokyo by James M. Scott
A Pulitzer Prize finalist: In the wake of Pearl Harbor, daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle led 16 US Army bombers to Japan in a pivotal, retaliatory mission. “One of the most incredible accounts of American military valor I’ve ever read” (New York Times bestselling author Pat Conroy). featured on BookBub on August 08, 2018 Finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in History.
At Your Library: Honor those who serve -The Cordova Times
Stories for veterans and branches of the military Nov. 11 is Veterans Day, which originated as “Armistice Day” on Nov. 11, 1919, the first anniversary of the end of World War I. Congress passed a resolution in 1926 for an annual observance, and Nov. 11 became a national holiday beginning in 1938. You might want to stop by the Cordova Public Library and check out one of these books that offer stories of veterans and branches of the military.
The day Charles Lindbergh changed our world forever
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote that "to be great is to be misunderstood," and no doubt Charles Lindbergh would have wholeheartedly agreed. It began on May 20, 1927, as the twenty-five year old pilot lifted off from Long Island's Roosevelt Field, turned northeast, and flew the 3,610 miles that altered his future and our world forever. Though the Atlantic had been crossed piecemeal and by airship, no one had flown non-stop from New York to Paris in a fixed wing aircraft.
The true legacy of Leo Thorsness, an American hero
Major Leo Thorsness had been fortunate. Skilled too, without a doubt, but other equally experienced fighter pilots and electronic warfare officers had been lost around the North Vietnamese capital of Hanoi. Dozens of surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) with thousands of anti-aircraft guns, and the enemy had fighter jets of their own: MiG-17s and MiG-21s.
THE FLIGHT by Dan Hampton
Fighter pilot and aviation historian Hampton (The Hunter Killers: The Extraordinary Story of the First Wild Weasels, the Band of Maverick Aviators Who Flew the Most Dangerous Missions of the Vietnam War, 2015, etc.) follows Charles Lindbergh’s (1902-1974) thrilling 33-hour flight from New York to Paris, the first solo trip across the Atlantic. When he took off on May 20, 1927, he knew that past efforts had failed, but the young man, who had been a mail delivery pilot, was undaunted.
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