Into The Wild Blue Yonder: My Life In The Air Force

Stein, Allan T.;Arnold, David Christopher

ISBN 10: 1585443867 / ISBN 13: 9781585443864

Edité par Texas A & M University Press, College Station, Texas, U.S.A., 2005

A propos de cet article

Published by Texas A & M University Press in 2005. Hardcover. 1st edition. Book condition: Fine. Black cloth boards with silver titles to spine. Inside the pages are in good order. Dust Jacket condition: Fine. See photograph. Dims: 240mm x 160mm x 20mm. 185 pages. Autobiography of the author in the USAF.

N° de réf. du vendeur 001089

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Into The Wild Blue Yonder: My Life In The Air Force
• Éditeur: Texas A & M University Press, College Station, Texas, U.S.A.
• Date de parution: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1585443867
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781585443864
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Poids: 0,55 kilogramme

A propos de ce titre

Synopsis

Allan T. Stein idolized his uncle, a pilot in the Great War. So in 1943, in the midst of the Second World War, he left Texas A&M University for Lackland Air Field to learn to fly. By the time he retired in 1969, Stein had flown everything from BT-13s and B-24s to B-52s and C-47s. During World War II, he flew missions over China and the Sea of Japan, and by V-J Day, he had participated in eight campaigns and logged 347 hours in combat. Stein later spent one year in Vietnam as operations officer for the 360 TEWS (Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron), which used refitted C-47s to monitor and locate Vietcong units. He ended his career as inspector general of the Civil Air Patrol. Stein remembers drinking 10[ beers in San Antonio and running an AT-17 into a dry lake bed outside Lubbock. He recalls a B-25 crashing into a stockade and a mission over the Atlantic that almost ended tragically due to bad weather and because his flight of B-47s could not refuel properly. During the 1940s, money was always short and the future uncertain, so he and his wife lived cheaply in cramped apartments and converted garages. Yet he recalls that the camaraderie among air force personnel and their families made those the best years of their lives. Stein considers himself to have been an ordinary airman, not a hero. But he was also a seasoned pilot and a conscientious officer with a strong sense of right and wrong. After a pilot he had trained and certified died in an accident, Stein made it a practice to fail all but the best candidates. He was just as disgusted with the corruption he encountered in the Civil Air Patrol as he was with the tendentious reporters he met in Saigon's Hotel Caravelle. Although he met his share of cowards and scoundrels, Stein loved to fly and he loved the air force. He was the sort of officer his superiors trusted not to make mistakes, but he was not the sort to rise to high rank. What he offers here is an account of a typical career as an air force officer, complete with its frustrations, moral dilemmas, and the occasional harrowing experience.

À propos de l?auteur

Now retired, Allan T. Stein lives in Katy, Texas.