Hat in the Ring by Bert Frandsen Stuffed Animal Their target: the superbattleship Musashi

Their target: the superbattleship Musashi

and romances bloomed as the New Guys competed with one another and navigated the cutthroat internal politics at NASA for a chance to rocket to the stars

each hoping to turn the rumored program into their own ideal reality—an issue that ultimately went all the way to Congress

Round patch featuring the VF-103

But when World War II broke out and British fighter pilots took to the skies in a desperate struggle for survival against Hitler’s bombers

Hat in the Ring by Bert Frandsen Stuffed Animal Their target: the superbattleship MusashiWhen Congress declared war in April 1917, the Europeans had already deployed their third generation of fighters, equipped with machine guns and capable of speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour, while the American Air Service consisted of only a handful of aviators in unarmed trainers. In this first in depth study of America's first air warriors, Frandsen shows how in just two years the 1st Pursuit Group organized, absorbed French and British