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Such Men as These The Story of the Navy Pilots Who Flew the Deadly Skies Over Ko
Such Men as These The Story of the Navy Pilots Who Flew the Deadly Skies Over Korea by David Sears
Hard Cover w/DJ
395 pages
Copyright 2010
CONTENTS
Foreword by Adm. James L. Holloway III, USN (Ret.)ix
Prologue: Mariners1
PART 1: WE INTERRUPT THIS COLD WAR
1 The Holloway23
2 Disturbing the Peace44
3 The Pittsburgh Corsairs, the Long Island Panthers 61
4 Onionskin Angel76
5 Other Everests96
6 Iroquois Flight111
PART 2: THIS AWFUL WAR YOU'LL TERMINATE
7 The Ridgway133
8 Roads, Rails, Bridges, Tunnels, Dams 150
9 Oh! Welcome to Korean Hills169
10 From a Cold Sea186
11 Unhappy Valleys203
PART 3: THE BRIDGES AT SAMDONG-NI
12 Epics in Failure225
13 Jersey Bounce249
14 Implacable Enemies and Unforgiving Elements266
15 Countering at the Right Moments285
16 Something Like Peace304
Three Epilogues321
Notes 337
Glossary341
Bibliography 345
Acknowledgments349
Appendix 1: Ready Rooms351
Appendix 2: Roll Call371
Index381
Illustrations follow page 210
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
The high-flying, heart-pounding exploits of United States Navy combat pilots during the Korean Warheroes who inspired James Michener's classic, The Bridges at Toko-Ri
In 1951, James Michener went to Korea to report on a little-known aspect of America's stalemated war: Navy aviators. His research-inspired novel about these pilots became an overnight bestseller and perhaps the most widely read book ever written about aerial combat.
Using Michener's notes, author David Sears tracked down the actual pilots, many of them veterans of World War II, to tell their riveting true-life stories. Called back into service, many of these Navy pilots left behind young families and budding careers to risk their lives in perilous airborne combat above the cold mountains of Korea. From icy, windswept decks of aircraft carriers, they crossed a cold sea and treacherous mountain terrain to strike heavily defended Communist dams, bridges, and tunnels. During these pulse-pounding aerial strikes, there was often just one path in and one path outwhere well-entrenched North Korean anti-aircraft gunners waited to shoot them down.
Pilots who survived the enemy guns still had to return across the same cold sea to reach their carriers. Wounds or damage to their aircraft might force them to crash behind enemy lines or into near-freezing water where survival time was measured in minutes. In either case, for rescue, they depended on the selfless heroics of helicopter pilots flying what was then a new, fragile, and largely untested craft. Enemy gunfire and turbulent seas took an enormous toll: at least one carrier aviation, squadron lost half its pilots during a six-month deployment.
Here are the true events and living heroes who inspired, and often surpassed, James Michener's fictional creationsmen such as Jesse LeRoy Brown, the first African-American naval pilot, and Neil, Armstrong, the first astronaut on the moon. Filled with action-packed combat accounts and unforgettable portraits, Such Men As These honors the pilots whose skill and sacrifice in the. Korean War made epic history.
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