Fighter Combat

AcknowledgmentsMuch of the credit for this book must go to my wife, Sue, whose patienceand encouragement over the several years of this project have made it allpossible.Thanks to Mrs. Ann Jarrett, who devoted many of her valuable eveningsand weekends to typing the manuscript, and to Greg High who did such afine job preparing the numerous illustrations.I also appreciate the many suggestions and the assistance, explanations,demonstrations, and good-natured ribbing provided by the air crews ofNavy Reserve Fighter Squadron VF-301, based at NAS Miramar, California,with whom I served during my most serious years of research for, andpreparation of, this text. If my work gets by them, I'll be content. Therewill be no tougher audience.The quotes by Adolph Galland fp. 406), Robert S. Johnson (p. 28), DavidMcCampbell (p. 106), John C. Meyer (p. xi), Robin Olds (pp. xii, 52, 67, 236,254), George Freddy, Jr. (pp. 30, 341), and Erich Rudorffer (p. 9) are fromFighter Tactics and Strategy, 1914—1970, by Edward H. Sims. I am gratefulto the author and to Harper and Row, and Aero Publishers, Inc., forallowing me to reproduce this material.I wish to express sincere appreciation for permission to quote from thefollowing works, as well:Bishop, William A., Winged Warfare. ©1967 by Doubleday and Company,Inc., Garden City, NY.Boyington, Gregory "Pappy," Baa Baa Black Sheep. ©1958, Wilson Press,Fresno, CA.Caidin, Martin, Fork-Tailed Devil: The P-38. ©1971, Ballantine Books,NY. With permission of the author.Cunningham, Randy, with Ethell, Jeff, Fox Two: The Story of America'sFirst Ace in Vietnam. ©1984, Champlin Fighter Museum, Mesa, AZ.Galland, Adolph, translated by M. Savill,TAe First and the Last. ©1954,1982 by Holt Rinehart and Winston, NY. Reprinted by permission ofHolt, Rinehart and Winston, Publishers, and Rosica Colin, Ltd.