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Flying from the Black Hole by Robert O. Harder

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Flying from the Black Hole

Author
Robert O. Harder
Narrator
Bob Souer
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Publish Date
6 March 2018
Run Time
9 hours 49 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
History, Military history, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Air forces and warfare, Military history, Military history
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Air Force navigators and bombardiers have long labored under the shadow of pilots—their contributions undervalued, misunderstood, or simply unknown to the general public. This was especially the case with the non-pilot officer aircrew in the Vietnam and Cold War–era B-52 Stratofortress. Of the six people who operated the bomber, three wore navigator wings—two of those men were also bombardiers, the other an electronic warfare officer. Without the navigator-bombardiers in particular, executing the nuclear war strike plan or flying Southeast Asian conventional bombing sorties would have been impossible. This book reveals who these men were and what they did down in the "Black Hole," a story told by one of their own.

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Author
Robert O. Harder
Narrator
Bob Souer
Duration
9 hours 49 minutes
Release Date
6 March 2018
ISBN
9781541489936
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Genre
History, Military history, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Air forces and warfare, Military history, Military history

Synopsis

Air Force navigators and bombardiers have long labored under the shadow of pilots—their contributions undervalued, misunderstood, or simply unknown to the general public. This was especially the case with the non-pilot officer aircrew in the Vietnam and Cold War–era B-52 Stratofortress. Of the six people who operated the bomber, three wore navigator wings—two of those men were also bombardiers, the other an electronic warfare officer. Without the navigator-bombardiers in particular, executing the nuclear war strike plan or flying Southeast Asian conventional bombing sorties would have been impossible. This book reveals who these men were and what they did down in the "Black Hole," a story told by one of their own.

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