Estate Of Richard K Smith, R Cargill Hall

Five Down, No Glory

Frank G. Tinker, Mercenary Ace in the Spanish Civil War

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Frank G. Tinker, Jr. was the top American ace flying under contract with the Spanish Republican Air Force in the Spanish Civil War. This first in-depth biography of Tinker covers his experience in combat, culminating with his commanding a Soviet squadron and terminating his contract with the government of Spain. The authors, well-known aviation historians, also offer a rare discussion of the aerial tactics introduced in the Spanish Civil War that became standard procedures in World War II and firmly establish Tinker's aviation feats for the historical record.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: US Naval Institute Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 163mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9781612510545
• ISBN-10: 161251054X
• Artikelnr.: 33469726

Autorenporträt

Richard K. Smith received his undergraduate degrees from the University of Illinois and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Airships Akron and Macon: Flying Aircraft Carriers of the United States Navy, the award-winning First Across! The U.S. Navy's Transatlantic Flight of 1919 and numerous articles on the history of aeronautics. He died before completing the manuscript of Five Down, No Glory. R. Cargill Hall is Emeritus Chief Historian of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), an intelligence arm of the Department of Defense. Previously he served in various history positions for the Air Force History and Museums Program. Still earlier he served as historian at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He lives in Arlington, TX.