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warbird2000 a écrit :ce livre Aces High: The Heroic Saga of the Two Top-Scoring American Aces of World War II
évoque en parallèle et par ordre chronologique la carrière des deux meilleurs as Bong et mc Guire de l'usaf

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Si quelqu'un l'a lu, peut-il me donner son avis ?

and a record of aerial victories that has yet to be surpassed anywhere in the world.

Poorly researched, over sensationalized, full of errors. Even the title was used by another book first. When I looked at the back for the bibliography, I wasn't too shocked at how little reference material there was. The book reads as such. If I had to read the phrase "Ace of Aces" or "tumbling down in a ball of flame" one more time, I was going to be ill. And did the author personally know Eddie Rickenbacker? You might think so, addressing him in the book as "Rick." Calling the Nakajima Ki44 a "variant" of the Ki-43? Really? That's like calling the P-47 a "variant" of the P-35. ENTIRELY DIFFERENT AIRCRAFT. The Mitsubishi J2M had an inline engine? NOT. The Japanese made a simultaneous attack on Clark Field and Pearl Harbor? NOT. So many glaring historical errors, what else in this book isn't true?