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Wings Before the Diamond

Name: Wings Before the Diamond
Brand: epubli
SKU: 9783565406937
Price: 10962 HUF
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Training Pilots Alongside Ted Williams in Wartime.DE

Szerző: Elton Quill

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: epubli

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In the summer of 1942, the man widely regarded as the greatest hitter in baseball history set down h...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző

Elton Quill

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2026

oldal

176

EAN

9783565406937

Enbook ID

51857711

Kiadó

epubli

Súly

546

Méretek

210 x 297 x 10

Teljes leírás

In the summer of 1942, the man widely regarded as the greatest hitter in baseball history set down his bat and picked up a flight manual. Ted Williams joined the Naval Reserve on 22 May 1942 - in the middle of a season he would close by winning the American League Triple Crown - and within months had entered a training pipeline that would reveal something his Red Sox teammates never suspected: he was just as extraordinary in the air as he was at the plate. His journey from pre-flight school in Amherst and Athens to the flight decks of NAS Pensacola became one of the most remarkable stories of athlete and airman converging in wartime America.The reflexes, coordination, and visual acuity that made Williams a .406 hitter translated with startling precision into the cockpit. At aerial gunnery training in Jacksonville, he broke every existing record, his 20/10 eyesight giving him an almost inhuman capacity to track targets at speed. His Red Sox teammate Johnny Pesky, who trained alongside him, observed that Williams solved flight problems in fifteen minutes that took the average cadet an hour - and half those cadets held college degrees. On 2 May 1944, Williams received his gold Naval Aviator wings and his commission as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps, and NAS Pensacola promptly refused to let him leave: his command of the gull-winged F4U Corsair was so exceptional that the Navy retained him as a flight instructor, teaching the next generation of combat pilots the machine he had mastered.