Fast Movers
His second history, Fast Movers: Jet Pilots and the Vietnam Experience(1999), focuses on U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilots who fought in the Vietnam War. Like Officers in Flights Suits, it is a social history that focuses on individual combat experiences and the institutional cultures of the fighter pilots who fought in America's longest war. The U.S. Naval Institute chose it as a notable book of 1999.
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