Desert Storm Books
Desert Storm Books
Desert Storm Books:
Strike Eagle Ironclaw Hornets over Kuwait The time: January 1991. The place: the deadly skies over Baghdad. Around the world, people are glued to their TV screens as, for the first time in history, CNN takes us live into battle. Streaks of green light - Iraqi antiaircraft fire - reach up to try to bring down the attacking aircraft. In the middle of this fierce melee was the U.S. Air Force's F-15E Strike Eagle. You watch as a Strike Eagle weapons officer aims a smart bomb's crosshairs on and Iraqi bunker. You follow the bomb as it homes in on the bunker's door. Then, a sudden, massive explosition. Target destroyed. Includes the historic attack against a Mi-8 Hip with a laser-guided bomb. Also features some missions described by WSO Capt Reno Pelletier.
A pilot who writes for the non-aviator, William L. Smallwood puts you inside the cockpit of one of the world's most advanced fighters during one of the most decisive air assaults in history. You share the pilots' thoughts as they prepare for war, their excitement as they engage the enemy, and their pride as they celebrate victory.
William L. Smallwood served in the Air Force during the Korean war and is and experienced instrument- and multi-engine-rated pilot. He is the author of Warthog: Flying the A-10 in the Gulf War.
Smallwood, W. 1994. Strike Eagle - Flying the F-15E in the Gulf War. Riverside, NJ: Brassey's. ISBN 0-02-881058-9
Just ten days out of land-based training and on the eve of the Persian Gulf War, Lieutenant Junior Grade Sherman Baldwin was assigned to Air Wing Five's EA-6B Prowler squadron - call sign Ironclaw - aboard the U.S.S. Midway. Flying the Prowler attack aircraft, Baldwin, his crew of three flight officers, and the rest of the squadron were responsible for identifying, jamming, and destroying enemy radar. Ironclaw is one of the most compelling accounts yet of life on a carrier at war. For the readers of Flight of the Intruder and Yager, Baldwin captures the excitement and risk faced by naval aviators. He takes the reader from belowdecks in the mission-planning room, where the day's combat assignment is handed out, to the deck of the Midway, where jets are catapulted over the Persian Gulf, and into the cockpit - offering an unprecendented look at what it feels to control one of the world's most sophisticated - adn powerful - military machines.
Sherman Baldwin, a graduate of Yale University, served as a naval officer from 1988 to 1995. Following the Gulf War, he worked for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and then served as aide and speechwriter for the Secretary of the Navy. In 1995, he completed a master's degree at George Washington University and is currently at the Harvard Business School.
Baldwin, Sherman. 1996. Ironclaw: a Navy carrier pilot's war experience. New York, NY: William Morrow and Company, Inc. ISBN 0-688-14303-2
While most books about the Gulf war have been written by military leaders, politicians, or journalists, this memoir comes from a Marine F/A-18 pilot who flew 37 missions against the Iraqis during Desert Storm. His look at modern air warfare is readable and personal, yet it makes a serious contribution to the reader's understanding of Marine Corps aviation. Jay Stout describes his own aerial actions and those of his comrades and also writes about the mundane issues associated with being at war. Screaming combat aircraft, exploding bombs, streaking missiles, and enemy casualties are covered side-by-side with homesickness, bad food, and toilet humour. Nor does the author pull any punches in his assessments of leadership, tactics, aircraft and women in the military. Many of the controversial subjects he discusses in the context of the Gulf War are relevant today and will influence the direction of tomorrow's military.
Jay Stout is a major in the U.S. Marine Corps. An Indiana native, he graduated from Purdue University in 1981, after which he was commissioned a second lieutenent and earned his naval aviator's wings. In a career that has included assignments in both F-4 Phantoms and the F/A-18 Hornet, he has amassed more than 4,300 flight hours.
Stout, Jay. 1997. Hornets over Kuwait. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-835-6
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