Wings of Gold: The U.S. Naval Air Campaign in World War II by Gerald Astor
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Wings of Gold: The U.S. Naval Air Campaign in World War II by Gerald Astor. Wings of Gold: The U.S. Naval Air Campaign in World War II by Gerald Astor. Ballantine Books, NY. June 2004. First Edition (stated) 452 pages, Hard Cover. Only defect of the book is last index page. Please See last photo. The rest of the book neary flawless, clean and very nearly new. From critically acclaimed military historian Gerald Astor comes Wings of Gold , the first account of how the airplane transformed the U.S. Navy and paved the way to victory in the Pacific in World War II. Astor tracks that fateful journey from its humble beginnings in 1910 when Eugene Ely flew the very first plane off the deck of a U.S. Navy ship to the unprecedented air combat missions that helped defeat the Japanese.
