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Scream of Eagles: The Dramatic Account of the U.S. Navy's Top Gun Fighter Pilots and How They Took Back the Skies Over Vietnam | 
 enlarge | Author: Robert K. Wilcox
Publisher: Pocket Star
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 129603
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 304
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0743497244
Dewey Decimal Number: 959
EAN: 9780743497244
ASIN: 0743497244
Publication Date: March 1, 2005
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The mission:Become the most skilled, highly-trained, and deadliest fighter pilots in the world. The place: TOP GUN In the darkest days of the Vietnam War, the U.S. Navy's kill ratio had fallen to 2:1 -- a deadly decline in pilot combat effectiveness. To improve the odds, a corps of hardened fighter pilots founded the Fighter Weapons School, a.k.a. TOP GUN. Utilizing actual enemy fighter planes in brutally realistic dogfights, the Top Gun instructors dueled their students and each other to achieve a lethal new level of fighting expertise. The training paid off. Combining the latest weaponry and technology, mental endurance, and razor-sharp instincts, the Top Gunners drove the Navy's kill ratio up to an astounding 12:1, dominating the skies over Vietnam. This gripping account takes you inside the cockpit for an adventure more explosive than any fiction -- in a dramatic true story of the legendary military school that has created the most dangerous fighter pilots the world has ever seen.
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 Excellent narrative history for the non-aviator history buff April 23, 2006
Joseph C. Thomas (Suffolk, VA United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Really a fun book - it is aimed at the general reader and is thus not academically oriented, but its factual information does have academic value. I read the original edition about 7 or 8 years ago, but just recently reread much of it for some research on the F-4 Phantom II. Low on technical data, instead the author gives the history of the human interactions that spawned the Top Gun Fighter Weapons School (which they made a really bad Tom Cruise movie about, but with F-14s). Much of it is told by the Navy officers who were there, and Wilcox brings it all together to explain what was wrong with the Naval air war in Vietnam and how the Navy fixed it.
 Great read for aviation enthusiasts November 24, 2008
JAC (Laughlin AFB, TX)
'Scream of Eagles' is well-written and thoroughly researched. Aviation enthusiasts and military buffs will certainly enjoy the detailed accounts of dogfight tactics and weapons employment, but it is probably too detailed in many places to hold the attention of more casual readers.
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