From POW to Blue Angel: The Story of Commander Dusty Rhodes
Language: English
Published by University of Oklahoma Press, 2006
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*AUTOGRAPHED/SIGNED* by Jim Armstrong on title page addressed to Joe with personalized message. GOOD/GOOD. Black photo illustrated dust jacket, dust jacket in archival plastic protector. Approx. 9" x 6". 297pp. Bumps/chips to edges and corners. Rub wear, dust markings and light scratches to covers. Creases to spine edges. Closed tear to bottom right corner of cover. Once Read Books, cover scan available - just ask, OnceReadBooks com Orders shipped via USPS.
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- Title
- From POW to Blue Angel: The Story of Commander Dusty Rhodes
- Author
- Armstrong, Jim; Voris, Roy M. [Foreword]
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- Good.
- Dust jacket
- Good.
- Signed
- Signed
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0806137649
- ISBN 13
- 9780806137643
- Item weight
- 19 ounces
- Dimensions
- 8x5x1
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As only the third fighter pilot to become leader of the Blue Angels, Raleigh E. "Dusty" Rhodes participated in developing the most famous aerobatics team ever formed. From POW to Blue Angel tells his story - a fast-paced drama teeming with action and human interest and capturing the initiative and tenacity of a true American hero.
Jim Armstrong has drawn on extensive interviews with Dusty and his closest colleagues, as well as Dusty's scrapbooks, flight logs, and prison journal, to produce a rare account of the Blue Angels in the late 1940s. Readers will experience the stress of practice and the exhilaration of air shows as Armstrong takes them inside Dusty's cockpit during the team's early years. This was the era when the Blues first found fame, perfecting their trademark diamond formation and barrel roll, as well as transitioning from prop planes to jet aircraft.
This book is also a moving account of the brutality Rhodes suffered for three years as a prisoner of war - the beatings, the interrogations, the forced labor - and includes his rare, ground observer's view of the firebombings of Tokyo and Yokohama.
Armstrong captures Dusty's exhilaration and uncertainty in returning to a changed postwar America, and also recounts how Rhodes followed his Blue Angels command with a tour as a fighter pilot in Korea.
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