![]() ![]() ![]() At the heart of his narrative, however, are vivid accounts of how A-10s accomplished their tank-busting missions and then some once the battle was joined. ``Warthog'') as a means of supporting ground troops with massive firepower, he moves into anecdotal vignettes detailing the ways in which so-called ``hog drivers'' and their commanders whiled away the weary hours of the calm before the storm in Saudi Arabia's inhospitable clime. Setting the stage with an informative briefing on how, in the 70's, the Air Force developed the A-10 (a.k.a. Drawing on interviews with over one hundred A-10 pilots who served in the Persian Gulf during the 1990-91 hostilities, Smallwood (himself an aviator and Korean War vet) offers riveting perspectives on aerial combat. A valentine for one of the ugliest, albeit most lethally effective, warplanes ever built-as well as for the men who flew them during the Desert Storm campaign. ![]()
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