All-Weather Fighters: The Second Team of the United States Air Force for Much of the Cold War

by Gordon B. Greer

Overview

Mr. Greer outlines the not well-known aircraft and activities of the United States Air Force's all-weather fighters during the first part of the Cold War. He covers the organization, development and decline of the all-weather force in response to the Soviet Union's long-range strategic bomber force equipped with atomic weapons. The author describes not only the individual aircraft from the early night fighters of World War II through the F-106A of the seventies and beyond but also the control organization that directed them until the whole operation was made superfluous by the ballistic missile standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union in the latter half of the Cold War.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780595850228
Publisher:	iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date:	09/11/2006
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	156
File size:	236 KB

About the Author

Gordon B. Greer was born in Butler, Pennsylvania, and educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He practiced law for 43 years and also served as an aviator in the United States Air Force with flight time in F-94Bs, F-94Cs and F-89Ds. Mr. Greer lives in Belmont, Massachusetts.