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Coram, Robert,

Double ace : the life of Robert Lee Scott Jr., pilot, hero, and teller of tall tales - First edition. - x, 324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Georgia boy -- Failure -- West Point -- Bugling -- Flying and driving -- Learning the trade -- Dark nights of the soul -- The fortress falls -- Wedding bells and distant trumpets -- Extra duty -- Orchids and pigs and, oh my, the training command -- California dreaming -- War tocsins -- "You are not blooded" -- Hold my beer -- The flight to destiny -- At the end of the world -- The Hump -- Flying Tiger -- Glory -- Leaving China -- Home is the hero -- On the road again -- The book ... and the movie -- Good reviews ... and bad -- Movie star -- Chiaroscuro -- Twilight -- The more things change -- Still in the race -- Resurrection -- At last -- One more mission -- Mission accomplished.

"Recounts the storied life and military career of the American flying Ace who flew missions in China alongside the (3z(BFlying Tigers(3y (Bduring World War II and helped found Georgia's Museum of Aviation,"--NoveList.

ISBN: 9781250040183 1250040183 9781466835429 1466835427

LCCN: 2016002478

Subjects--Personal Names:
Scott, Robert Lee, Jr., 1908-2006.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Group, 23rd.
United States. Air Force --Biography.

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1939 - 1945

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Fighter pilots--United States--Biography.
Generals--United States--Biography.
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--China.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Biographies
Biographies.
Biography.

LC Class. No.: UG626.2.S36 / C67 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 358.40092 B