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NATIONAL BESTSELLER'If you loved the movie, you will love the real story in the book.'-- Fox & FriendsOn the 50th anniversary of the creation of the'Topgun'Navy Fighter School, its founder shares the remarkable inside story of how he and eight other risk-takers revolutionized the art of aerial combat. When American fighter jets were being downed at an unprecedented rate during the Vietnam War, the U.S. Navy turned to a young lieutenant commander, Dan Pedersen, to figure out a way to reverse their dark fortune. On a shoestring budget and with little support, Pedersen picked eight of the finest pilots to help train a new generation to bend jets like the F-4 Phantom to their will and learn how to dogfight all over again. What resulted was nothing short of a revolution -- one that took young American pilots from the crucible of combat training in the California desert to the blistering skies of Vietnam, in the process raising America's Navy combat kill ratio from two enemy planes downed for every American plane lost to more than 22 to 1. Topgun emerged not only as an icon of America's military dominance immortalized by Hollywood but as a vital institution that would shape the nation's

Who reads Topgun : An American Story?

Author

Dan Pedersen

Publisher

Hachette Book Group USA

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780316416276

Category

history

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

4.7 / 5 (1,710 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14