Tempered Steel The Three Wars of Triple Air Force Cross Winner Jim Kasler

Name: Tempered Steel The Three Wars of Triple Air Force Cross Winner Jim Kasler
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ISBN: 9781574888355

ISBN-10: 1574888358

ISBN-13: 9781574888355

Edition: 2006

Authors: Perry D. Luckett, Charles L. Byler, James Salter

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Perry Luckett and Charles Byler have written the first biography of Col. James Kasler, who is the only three-time recipient of the Air Force Cross, the second highest medal for wartime valor. Kasler served as an eighteen-year-old B-29 tail gunner in World War II, became a legendary jet ace in Korea, and was so famous in Vietnam that he was known by name in the White House. Major General Hoyt Vandenberg put Kasler, along with Chuck Yeager and Robbie Risner, as "head and shoulders above the rest as stick-and-rudder pilots." Kasler planned and led the most effective bombing mission of the Vietnam War. He was shot down and had to endure six and a half years of torture in a POW camp. His…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Potomac Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/31/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.90" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Charles L. Byler is the author of After Nam: A Police Story. He lives in Boyertown, Pennsylvania.

James Salter is the author of the novels Solo Faces,Light Years, A Sport and a Pastime, The Arm of Flesh (revised as Cassada), and The Hunters; the memoirs Gods of Tinand Burning the Days; and two collections of short stories, Dusk and Other Stories(which won the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award), and Last Night. He lives in Colorado and on Long Island.



Foreword


Acknowledgments


Prelude



The Child Is Father of the Man



Two Loves: Martha and Aviation



Korean War Ace



Testing, Training, and Danger



From Canada to Cuba



Cold War Duty in Europe



New War, New Rules



Shoot-Down and Capture



Tempering in Hanoi's Fiery Furnace



The Light of Freedom



Home



Businessman and Citizen


Afterword



Personal Reflections



Military Decorations


Selected Bibliography


Index


About the Authors