Air Warriors

Author: Carroll V. Glines
Publisher: Van Nostrand reinhold NY
Edition: First
Cover: Soft
ISBN: 0-442-21925-3
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Carroll V. Glines, who retired from the United States Air Force as a colonel after twenty-seven years of service, is historian for the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders and curator of the Doolittle Library at the University of Texas at Dallas.

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