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

In 1945 Second Lieutenant Jack Broughton graduated from West Point with the silver pilot wings of a newly commissioned member of the Army Air Corps. Nearly thirty years later, he retired as a full colonel in the United States Air Force, an entity that didn't even exist when he first learned to fly. Along the way Colonel Broughton saw duty in virtually every fighter aircraft the Air Corps and then Air Force had to offer.
 
He experienced the birth and coming of age of the U.S. Air Force and its bloodying in combat in Korea and Vietnam. In this, his third book, Broughton offers readers what is virtually a biography of the U. S. Air Force as it was experienced by one of its finest combat leaders.

From his initial duty in postwar Germany as part of the American occupation, to air-to-air combat in Korea, to his command of the Thunderbirds and two combat tours in Vietnam, Broughton describes what it is to meet the enemy in the air--and to fly some of the best-known aircraft in combat. By the bestselling author of Thud Ridge and Going Downtown.

• Going Downtown: The War Against Hanoi and Washington
• Going Downtown: The War Against Hanoi and Washington
• Thud Ridge: F-105 Thunderchief Missions Over Vietnam
• Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds
• Thud Pilot: A Pilot's Account of Early F-105 Combat in Vietnam
• When Thunder Rolled: An F-105 Pilot over North Vietnam
• Rolling Thunder 1965-68: Johnson's air war over Vietnam (Air Campaign)
• Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
• 100 Missions North: A Fighter Pilot's Story of the Vietnam War
• The Hunter Killers: The Extraordinary Story of the First Wild Weasels, the Band of Maverick Aviators Who Flew the Most Dangerous Missions of the Vietnam War