Wings of Valor: Honoring America's Fighter Aces

by Nick Del Calzo and Peter Collier

The Aces of World War I were knights of the sky, obeying an unwritten code of noblesse oblige. The romance of flight still clung to the Aces of World War II, Korea and Vietnam, but they had a different and more decisive mission. Less figures of chivalry now than their predecessors, they were hunters trying to survive in the jungle warfare of the skies, stoic heroes asking no quarter of the enemy and giving none as they scored the five aerial victories...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591146410
• ISBN13: 9781591146414
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.3" x 12.2"