Ace - Jacoby, Stuart
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The story takes place on the United States Ship Concord. She is an aircraft carrier in the Fifth Fleet part of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet. Lieutenant Gus Patterson is a fighter pilot, a division leader of four Grumman F6F Hellcat fighters. The action is centered in the Philippine Sea west of Saipan Island in the Marianas chain. Three years to train, three seconds to die. This is the dilemma Gus faces each time he climbs into the cockpit of his fighter plane. Can Gus survive the aerial dogfights of a tenacious enemy? Gus is married to his sweetheart Elizabeth. Will he live to see her again?

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The story takes place on the United States Ship Concord. She is an aircraft carrier in the Fifth Fleet part of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet. Lieutenant Gus Patterson is a fighter pilot, a division leader of four Grumman F6F Hellcat fighters. The action is centered in the Philippine Sea west of Saipan Island in the Marianas chain. Three years to train, three seconds to die. This is the dilemma Gus faces each time he climbs into the cockpit of his fighter plane. Can Gus survive the aerial dogfights of a tenacious enemy? Gus is married to his sweetheart Elizabeth. Will he live to see her again?
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Stuart William Jacoby was in Rochester, New York on August 2, 1948. He has a passion for reading and writing about United States Naval History. He is retired after working twenty-five years in business and in the library of a prestigious law firm in Rochester. He lives in sunny Delray Beach, Florida. He has taken two writing workshops one at Florida Atlantic University and the other at the Old School Square. He graduated in 1972 from the University of Rochester with a Bachelor of Science degree in liberal arts with a focus in History. He has had a lifelong fascination in United States Naval History ever since he read Samuel Eliot Morison's: HISTORY OF UNITED STATES NAVAL OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR TWO.