Vanished Hero: The Life, War and Mysterious Disappearance of America’s WWII Strafing King

Review As a combat aviator, Jay Stout has an insider's perspective on the motivation of those who strapped into fighter planes before most readers were born.  His penetrating biography of an outstanding WW II leader will fascinate students of the subject and practitioners alike.  Colonel Elwyn Righetti, the 8th Air Force's "king of the strafers," emerges as a complex individual who loved to fly and reveled in combat.  Yet as Stout demonstrates through Righetti's letters and remaining family and wingmates, "Eager El" harbored doubts about his future--a doubt that was realized on his 30th birthday.  (Barrett Tillman, author of Whirlwind and

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