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Viper pilot : a memoir of air combat / Dan Hampton.
- Title
- Viper pilot : a memoir of air combat / Dan Hampton.
- Author
- Hampton, Dan
- Publication
- New York : William Morrow, c2012.
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- Description
- 337 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
- Summary
- From 1986 to 2006, Lt. Col. Dan Hampton was a leading member of the Wild Weasels, the elite Air Force fighter squadrons whose mission is recognized as the most dangerous job in modern air combat. Weasels are the first planes sent into a war zone, flying deep behind enemy lines purposely seeking to draw fire from surface-to-air missiles and artillery. They must skillfully evade being shot down--and then return to destroy the threats, thereby making the skies safe for everyone else to follow. Today these vital missions are more hazardous than direct air-to-air engagement with enemy aircraft. Hampton's record number of strikes on high-value targets make him the most lethal F-16 Wild Weasel pilot in American history. Hampton spearheaded the 2003 invasion of Iraq, leading the first flight of fighters over the border en route to strike Baghdad. In the war that followed, he earned three Distinguished Flying Crosses with Valor. With manned missions rapidly giving way to remote-controlled UAV drones, Viper Pilot may be the last memoir by a true hero of the skies.--From publisher description.
- Subject
- Hampton, Dan
- United States. Air Force > Biography
- 1991-2011
- Fighter pilots > United States > Biography
- F-16 (Jet fighter plane)
- Persian Gulf War, 1991 > Aerial operations, American
- Persian Gulf War, 1991 > Personal narratives, American
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Aerial operations, American
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Personal narratives, American
- Electronic warfare aircraft > United States
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Personal narratives – American
- Autobiographies.
- Note
- Includes index.
- "One of America's deadliest F-16 aviators"-- Dust jacket.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Prologue: Angel of death -- YGBSM -- Cold war and hot times -- The elephant -- Fly like an Egyptian -- Patchwearer -- Intermission -- Shock and awe -- Sandstorm -- The valley of the shadow -- SAMbush -- ELI 33 -- Endgame.
- ISBN
- 9780062130358 (hbk.)
- 0062130358 (hbk.)
- 9780062130341 (pbk.)
- 006213034X (pbk.)
- 9780062130365 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- 0062130366 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2012016117
- OCLC
- 777621138
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library