Aces in Combat: The American Aces Speak, Volume 5.

Pacifica, CA: Pacifica Press, 1998. Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt lettering, xvi, 266 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Adding to the acclaimed first four volumes of his exciting, in-the-cockpit series, The American Aces Speak, leading combat historian Eric Hammel comes through with yet another engrossing collection of thirty-nine first-person accounts by American fighter aces serving in World War II and the Korean War. As are the four earlier volumes, Aces in Combat is a highly charged excursion into life and death in the air, told by men who excelled at piston-engine and jet-engine aerial combat and lived to tell about it. It is an emotional rendering of what brave airmen felt and how they fought in the now-dim days of America’s living national history. View the Battle of Midway through Lieutenant Jim Gray’s eyes as he must balance the needs of fellow pilots against the needs of the nation...