Wings of Fury: From Vietnam to the Gulf War--the Astonishing True Stories of America's Elite Fighter Pilots

Sea Power, Aug 1997

WINGS OF FURY: From Vietnam to the Gulf War - the Astonishing True Stories of America's Elite Fighter Pilots, by Robert Wilcox. New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, 1997. 326 pp. $24.00. Wilcox's expertise and the contacts he made during the writing of his critically and popularly acclaimed Scream of Eagles-about fighter pilots in the Vietnam War-provided him both the information database and personal access needed to write this absorbing follow-on book.

An acknowledged "wannabe flyer," Wilcox became, instead, an Air Force information officer. In Wings he skillfully draws the reader into the cockpit to experience the thrills, fear, horror, and excitement that come from the life-or-death moments facing every fighter pilot in combat. Wilcox uses their own colorful words to tell the stories of the pilots some of the top Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force pilots of the Vietnam and Gulf Wars. With black and white photos, glossary, and index.