TOWARD THE UNKNOWN: MEMOIRS OF AN AMERICAN FIGHTER PILOT By Maultsby Col. Chuck
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CreateSpace
ISBN-10
1490508228
ISBN-13
9781490508221
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E-book Title
Towards the Unknown: Memoirs of an American Fighter Pilot
Variety of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Subject
Navy
Publication 12 months
2013
Style
Biography & Autobiography
Format
Commerce Paperback
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0.7 in
Merchandise Weight
17.6 Oz
Merchandise Size
9 in
Merchandise Width
6 in
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Prologue by
Caiden, Martin
Synopsis
Col. Chuck Maultsby was born in Greenville, North Carolina on June seventh, 1926. After his mom’s dying (when he was eight years outdated), and subsequent rejection by a callous father, he went to dwell with an aunt and uncle in Norfolk, Virginia. Chuck Maultsby was born to fly and was fixated on plane from the time he might stroll. He spent a lot of his youth hanging across the small municipal airport close to his Norfolk house doing something he needed to do to be close to airplanes and their pilots, whereas hoping somebody would supply him a experience. He labored a number of jobs after college to boost the cash essential to take flying classes and soloed on his sixteenth birthday. He utilized for the Military Air Corps cadet program on his eighteenth birthday; solely to undergo the frustration of seeing this system’s suspension on the finish of World Warfare II. The Korean Warfare supplied the following oportunity to change into a jet pilot, and Chuck Maultsby grabbed it, solely to be shot out of the sky throughout his seventeenth fight mission; after which he endured 22 months as a Chinese language prisoner of battle all of the whereas struggling “disagreeable” remedy. After the Korean Warfare, he grew to become a pilot-instructor at Nellis Air Pressure Base, Nevada and gained a spot on the Nellis Fighter Weapons Group of 1957; the workforce that swept each occasion on the “William Inform” competitors, beating each different navy fighter-pilot workforce within the U.S. and remainder of the free world. From there the Colonel grew to become a member of the USAF Arial Demonstration Group, The THUNDERBIRDS (1958-1960). As a U-2 spyplane pilot, the Colonel discovered himself within the very dicey predicament of being detected by the Russians over their airspace on the top of the Cuban Missile Disaster of October 1962. It is true to say that he very practically was the reason for World Warfare III. The subsequent main section of the Colonel’s life was spent in Vietnam in 1967 the place he flew 216 fight missions (a full third of these missions had been flown in North Vietnam). He was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in motion for his mission in shut help of American floor troops in dire straights. After the Vietnam expertise, Col. Maultsby continued as a pilot-instructor and squadron commander at Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona, a employees officer at Tactical Air Command Headquarters at Langley AFB, Virginia, and at last, because the requirements and analysis officer for NATO Forces South in Naples, Italy. Col. Maultsby was married to his spouse, Jeanne, from 1949 till his dying in 1998. That they had three sons. P.S. The Colonel even retells the story of his involvement in one of the surprising scandals in navy historical past involving the Chief of Employees of the Royal Australian Air Pressure., Col. Chuck Maultsby was born in Greenville, North Carolina on June seventh, 1926. After his mom’s dying (when he was eight years outdated), and subsequent rejection by a callous father, he went to dwell with an aunt and uncle in Norfolk, Virginia. Chuck Maultsby was born to fly and was fixated on plane from the time he might stroll. He spent a lot of his youth hanging across the small municipal airport close to his Norfolk house doing something he needed to do to be close to airplanes and their pilots, whereas hoping somebody would supply him a experience. He labored a number of jobs after college to boost the cash essential to take flying classes and soloed on his sixteenth birthday. He utilized for the Military Air Corps cadet program on his eighteenth birthday; solely to undergo the frustration of seeing this system’s suspension on the finish of World Warfare II. The Korean Warfare supplied the following oportunity to change into a jet pilot, and Chuck Maultsby grabbed it, solely to be shot out of the sky throughout his seventeenth fight mission; after which he endured 22 months as a Chinese language prisoner of battle all of the whereas struggling “disagreeable” remedy. After the Korean Warfare, he grew to become a pilot-instructor at Nellis Air Pressure Base, Nevada and gained a spot on the Nellis Fighter Weapons Group of 1957; the workforce that swept each occasion on the “William Inform” competitors, beating each different navy fighter-pilot workforce within the U.S. and remainder of the free world. From there the Colonel grew to become a member of the USAF Arial Demonstration Group, The THUNDERBIRDS (1958-1960). As a U-2 spyplane pilot, the Colonel discovered himself within the very dicey predicament of being detected by the Russians over their airspace on the top of the Cuban Missile Disaster of October 1962. It is true to say that he very practically was the reason for World Warfare III. The subsequent main section of the Colonel’s life was spent in Vietnam in 1967 the place he flew 216 fight missions (a full third of these missions had been flown in North Vietnam). He was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in motion for his mission in shut help of American floor troops in dire straights. After the Vietnam expertise, Col. Maultsby continued as a pilot-instructor and squadron commander at Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona, a employees officer at Tactical Air Command Headquarters at Langley AFB, Virginia, and at last, because the requirements and analysis officer for NATO Forces South in Naples, Italy. Col. Maultsby was married to his spouse, Jeanne, from 1949 till his dying in 1998. That they had three sons.P.S. The Colonel even retells the story of his involvement in one of the surprising scandals in navy historical past involving the Chief of Employees of the Royal Australian Air Pressure. The e-book’s foreward was written by the Colonels good friend, Martin Caidin, creator of over 50 books together with “Cyborg” that grew to become Tv’s “Six Million Greenback Man,” and “Marooned” which grew to become a film starring Gene Hackman, Gregory Peck and Richard Crenna.
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