Lt General Gerald Johnson Called To Command WWII Fighter Ace ' S Adventure Journey
Item History & Price
Hardcover. 8vo. Turner Publishing Company, Paducah, KY. 2002. 240 pgs. Illustrated. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A Kentucky native, Johnson found fame with Hub Zemke's 56th FG, becoming the Wolfpack's first ace and eventually notching up 18 kills. On his last miss...ion, he violated the basic rule for successful strafing missions - "One pass, Haul [...]" - and became a POW in March 1944. Postwar, Johnson held a succession of increasingly responsible Air Force positions and commands, specifically within the SAC community - 62nd FS CO, 82nd FG CO, 508th FW CO, 7th AD staff in England, SAC Headquarters staff, 95th BW CO and so on. In doing so, he racked up flight time in F-51s, F-84s, B-57s, B-52s, etc. His penultimate command was CO of the 8th AF, which was responsible for the war-winning Linebacker strikes in 1972/73 during the Vietnam War. Johnson died in 2002. Lt General Gerald Johnson Called to Command WWII Fighter Ace's Adventure Journey
