books by Jack Broughton

books by Jack Broughton

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Jack Broughton

Rupert Red Two: A Fighter Pilot's Life From Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs

Jack Broughton

Zenith Press, 2008

Rupert Red Two
This is the third book by Colonel Broughton that I have read (the first being "Thud Ridge" and the second, "Going Downtown"), and as always, I found it extraordinarily well written. His previous books provided us with the real soundtrack of flying combat missions over ...

Thud Ridge: F-105 Thunderchief missions over Vietnam

Jack Broughton

Crecy, 2006

Classic Vietnam War Memoir
Col. Jack Broughton's "Thud Ridge" was one of the first books I ever read on the Vietnam War. I read it in middle school back in the mid-1980s and, while I forgot many of the stories he told in his book, the stories of the high-level military and political ...

All: A James Broughton Reader (White Crane Wisdom) (White Crane Wisdom)

James Broughton

White Crane Books, 2007

Big Joy
With the release of this important book on filmmaker and poet James Broughton we are handed a unique experience, for it is "the very first book to allow the various aspects of Broughton's complex personality to 'sing' to one another." Broughton, or "Big Joy," was so ...

Thud Ridge
USAF (Ret.) Colonel Jack Broughton

Popular Library, 1969

Thud Ridge

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J. B. Lippincott Company, 1969

Thud Ridge
They called their plane the "Thud," short for F-105 Thunderchief; Thud Ridge was their name for the line of hills they followed to the heart of Hanoi, a target more heavily defended than Berlin during World War II. Thud Ridge is Colonel Broughton's highly personal ...

Going Downtown: The War Against Hanoi and Washington

Jack Broughton

Crown, 1988

Captures the true spirit of a fighter pilot!
This book captures the true spirit of a fighter pilot and why they are such special people. His war on Hanoi, waged with one hand tied behind his back by McNamara and President Johnson needed to be told. And he told it as only a fighter pilot could. You could be ...

Thud Ridge
Col. Jack Broughton

Lippincott, 1969

Day to day story of the Thailand-based fliers who fought in the Vietnam War. The author tells how it feels to hit and be hit, telling stories of heroism, skill and dedication of men who flew these combat missions.