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9 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches
Hardback
464 pages
500 color and b/w photos |
AMERICAN EAGLES:
A History of the United States Air Force
AMERICAN EAGLES is a comprehensive
review of the United States Air Force and its origins.
This unique book is 464 pages, hardbound with more than
500 illustrations, including some 275 historical photographs,
30 pieces of aviation art, and close to 300 new color
photographs by Dan Patterson which feature the collection
at the United States Air Force Museum, in Dayton, Ohio.
The 220,000 word text was written by Air Vice-Marshal
Ron Dick, RAF (Ret.).
The goal of AMERICAN EAGLES was to create a book that
emphasized the people who made the history rather than
one which just repeated familiar facts and figures.
Those details are included, as are many less well-known,
but the pages of American Eagles are also filled with
stories of professional airmen and citizen soldiers
whose extraordinary feats illuminated Air Force achievements
in war and peace. It is this combined presentation which
makes this history so compelling. The color illustrations
are new studies of the collection at the US Air Force
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The book features over 100 of the aircraft
on display, 75 cockpit studies, still life photos that
include many of the priceless artifacts in the AFM collection,
and several recent portraits of famous American aviators,
shown sitting in their cockpits once more. There are also
over 250 historical photos from the USAF Museum archives,
many never published before, besides some 30 pieces of
aviation art, including the work of Keith Ferris, R.G.
Smith, Gil Cohen, Mike Machat and others.
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"... American Eagles does not
disappoint. The work appeals to the mind as well as the eye."
"Author Ron Dick ... presents the strengths and weaknesses
of the American approach to air power while detaching himself from
hot-button issues, service pride, and ax-grinding. ..... Photographer
Dan Patterson uses the holdings of the Air Force Museum ... to gratify
... the lust of the eye."
History Book Club
The American
Eagles Heirloom Edition features the signatures
of forty famous American aviators.
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