Joe Kittinger and Craig Ryan
Come Up and Get Me: An Autobiography of Colonel Joe Kittinger
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2010
“Fighter pilots and test pilots do not accept death. We accept the risks.” — Col. Joe Kittinger
Col. Joe Kittinger had been ballooning upward for two hours. Read more …
Yankees, Jews, Vietnam, & Napalm
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David Maraniss
They Marched Into Sunlight: War & Peace Vietnam & America, 1967
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003
The Vietnam War was fought in two theaters. The first was between the Americans and the Communists in Vietnam, and the second was between pro- and anti-war factions on college campuses and other places across the United States. Read more …