Fighter Combat - Tactics and Maneuvering

Acknowledgments
Much of the credit for this book must go to my wife, Sue, whose patience
and encouragement over the several years of this project have made it all
possible.
Thanks to Mrs. Ann Jarrett, who devoted many of her valuable evenings
and weekends to typing the manuscript, and to Greg High who did such a
fine job preparing the numerous illustrations.
I also appreciate the many suggestions and the assistance, explanations,
demonstrations, and good-natured ribbing provided by the air crews of
Navy Reserve Fighter Squadron VF-301, based at NAS Miramar, California,
with whom I served during my most serious years of research for, and
preparation of, this text. If my work gets by them, I'll be content. There
will be no tougher audience.
The quotes by Adolph Galland fp. 406), Robert S. Johnson (p. 28), David
McCampbell (p. 106), John C. Meyer (p. xi), Robin Olds (pp. xii, 52, 67, 236,
254), George Freddy, Jr. (pp. 30, 341), and Erich Rudorffer (p. 9) are from
Fighter Tactics and Strategy, 1914—1970, by Edward H. Sims. I am grateful
to the author and to Harper and Row, and Aero Publishers, Inc., for
allowing me to reproduce this material.
I wish to express sincere appreciation for permission to quote from the
following works, as well:
Bishop, William A., Winged Warfare. ©1967 by Doubleday and Company,
Inc., Garden City, NY.
Boyington, Gregory "Pappy," Baa Baa Black Sheep. ©1958, Wilson Press,
Fresno, CA.
Caidin, Martin, Fork-Tailed Devil: The P-38. ©1971, Ballantine Books,
NY. With permission of the author.
Cunningham, Randy, with Ethell, Jeff, Fox Two: The Story of America's
First Ace in Vietnam. ©1984, Champlin Fighter Museum, Mesa, AZ.
Galland, Adolph, translated by M. Savill,TAe First and the Last. ©1954,
1982 by Holt Rinehart and Winston, NY. Reprinted by permission of
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Publishers, and Rosica Colin, Ltd.