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Two-man Air Force Philip Kaplan

Two-man Air Force By Philip Kaplan

Two-man Air Force by Philip Kaplan


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Summary

American volunteers Don Gentile and John Godfrey flew together as leader and wingman respectively, with the USAAF 4th Fighter Group based near Cambridge. At the end of their missions with the 4th, the two of them had accounted for the destruction of over 58 enemy aircrafts. This is the story of their amazing adventures and wartime partnership.

Two-man Air Force Summary

Two-man Air Force by Philip Kaplan

American volunteers Don Gentile (pronounced Jen-tilly) and John Godfrey flew together as leader and wingman respectively, with the USAAF 4th Fighter Group based at Debden near Cambridge in England. At the end of their missions with the 4th the two of them had accounted for over 58 enemy aircraft destroyed. Major Gentile had scored 22 air and 6 ground kills before he was returned to the USA to help raise money for the war effort. Major Godfrey was credited with 18 air and 12 ground kills before he was shot down and taken prisoner of war. This is the story of their amazing adventures and wartime partnership from their basic training in Canada and then onto England where they first flew the Supermarine Spitfire. It continues with their transfer to the USAAF 4th Fighter Group when the US entered the war and when the two were retrained to fly the P-47 Thunderbolt and eventually the superb P-51 Mustang. These two ace pilots loved life as much as flying - and as well as being hell-bent on destroying the enemy in the skies of Europe they also lived life to the full in their off-duty time in England.

About Philip Kaplan

Philip Kaplan is a Californian author and art-director who now lives in Cheltenham with his English wife, also an author. He has a long-standing fascination with aviation and naval history and has had ten previous books published by Abbeville, Cassell, Random House and Aurum. To date his books have sold well over a quarter of a million copies world-wide

Additional information

GOR005008681
9781844151776
1844151778
Two-man Air Force by Philip Kaplan
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
2005-07-26
224
N/A
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