Annapolis Today: Sixth Edition

by Peter B. Mersky

This book is a long-awaited biography of one of the Navy's last surviving World War II aces, and one of the Navy's most respected officers of any period. Following a typical American mid-western boyhood, Whitey Feightner, like so many of his generation, was in the van of the huge group of young men thrust into World War II. Like some of his generation, Whitey had logged flight time in civilian aircraft before signing up to fly for the Navy. Upon receiving...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870210793
• ISBN13: 9780870210792
• Release Date: January 1957
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 224 Pages