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Informationen zum Autor Dik Alan Daso, Ph.D., is the curator of modern military aircraft at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum. A retired Air Force pilot, he has logged more than 2,700 hours of flight time in various aircraft, including the F-15. He also taught history at the United States Air Force Academy and served as chief of Air Force doctrine at the Pentagon. Daso is the author of Architects of American Air Supremacy: Gen. Hap Arnold and Dr. Theodore Vab Karmen and Hap Arnold and the Evolution of AMerican Air Power, which won the 2001 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Manuscript Award. He lives in the Washington, D.C., area. Klappentext A compelling look at a brave warrior and aeronautical pioneer in both the civilian and military fields of aviation Zusammenfassung On April 18! 1942! Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle led a flight of sixteen B-25 bombers off the flight deck of the USS Hornet on one of the most daring raids in U.S. military history! a low-level strike on Tokyo and other Japanese cities. For this heroic act! he received the Medal of Honor. But! as Dik Alan Daso convincingly argues! James H.
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Dik Alan Daso, Ph.D., is the curator of modern military aircraft at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum. A retired Air Force pilot, he has logged more than 2,700 hours of flight time in various aircraft, including the F-15. He also taught history at the United States Air Force Academy and served as chief of Air Force doctrine at the Pentagon. Daso is the author of Architects of American Air Supremacy: Gen. Hap Arnold and Dr. Theodore Vab Karmen and Hap Arnold and the Evolution of AMerican Air Power, which won the 2001 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Manuscript Award. He lives in the Washington, D.C., area.
