Great Book - FREE download

[Tango_Romeo]

For anyone who is interested in the air war over Korea, there is a great 700-page book with maps, illustrations and photos on the subject that can be downloaded for FREE as a 116MB PDF file from the Nashville Public Library's Electronic Resources Department...no membership required:

The United States Air Force in Korea, 1950-1953 by Robert Futrell

It's number 23 on this page...click on the Electronic Resources link under the title to download...

http://waldo.library.nashville.org/search/a?searchtype=X&searcharg=Korean+Air+War&searchscope=43&SORT=D&submit=Submit

[hellcat-44]

Thanks for that TR.... [smiley=beer.gif]

Have you read SABRES over MIG ALLEY?

[Tango_Romeo]

No, but I have that one on order at the library.

I just finished James Salter's The Hunters again.....wish I could find that movie on DVD.

[Tango_Romeo]

And I just got a copy of Crimson Sky: the air battle of korea

I read a lot....could you tell? 

[Ravenna]

TR, to find the Hunters look here:http://www.cdwow.com.au/DVD/hunters/dp/843441#bc=1f4d
I think the price is in Australian dollars, which makes it even more attractive for you.
cheers,
Mike

[Tango_Romeo]

Thanks, Mike.   I haven't looked for it in a couple of years and because of you I find it was released in '08.

I found a copy at the US site for $16.99 and free shipping and Amazon has it for $7.49 plus 1.99 shipping.

[Tango_Romeo]

Salter's Gods of Tin, The Flying Years is proving to be an excellent book.

[olderndirt]

wish I could find that movie on DVD.

Amazon.com - $7.49 - eligible for FREE shipping.

[hellcat-44]

I normally won't recommend a book, especially if it's the only one I've read on a subject, but I'll make an exception with Sabres over the alley. It has 3 reviews at Amazon...one 5 and two 4 stars and there's not much I can add to them.
However, I had suspicions it might be an exceptional read when on a page nine Werrell brings up our old buddy George Welch. On page eleven, he goes further by relating certain events that strongly suggest Welch may have been the first man to break the sound barrier....in the XP-86....in a drive,,,but breaking it none the less. Fascinating stuff!

One reviewer mentions the technical aspects of the book and yeah,,,there's a lot of that but Werrell presents in a way that makes for an extremely easy/interesting read about the trials and tribulations of the Sabre both before and early in-theater.
I learned a hell of a lot.

[hellcat-44]

BTW TR...The Airmen and the Headhunters is on tonight at a PBS channel near you.

[Tango_Romeo]

7-8 CDT hereabouts.....

[Tango_Romeo]

Yep.....there is no better final line to a novel than Salter's in The Hunters:
Their heavy shots had splashed into him, and they had followed all the way, firing as they did, with that contagious passion peculiar to hunters.

[Tango_Romeo]

And Crimson Sky: The Air Battle For Korea is turning out to be a wonderful read for non-fiction.

This book by Bruning was published in 1999 and gives the best, absolutely the best, insight into the real details of the Korean air war.  It contains the explanation to many items that have only been described in general in the past.  The straight skinnies.  [smiley=engel017.gif]

[hellcat-44]

And Crimson Sky: The Air Battle For Korea is turning out to be a wonderful read for non-fiction.

This book by Bruning was published in 1999 and gives the best, absolutely the best, insight into the real details of the Korean air war.

[Tango_Romeo]

OK, OK, I know I was on a bit of a rant, but decent books on Korea are so rare. 

I got mine at the local library for FREE.