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Dive Bomber is the first complete account of the training and life of the aviators of the U.S. Navy - the eyes of the fleet. And it is a first hand account, for the author is a commissioned officer, one of the first young men to be taken from civilian life and given the intensive training of a naval aviation cadet.
Robert A. Winston gave up a five year start in the newspaper world for a chance to fly. He knew nothing about it, but learned plenty - and so does the reader as he follows this amazingly graphic story.
From the elimination base the account moves swiftly through the Navy's training school at Pensacola: landplanes, seaplanes, aerial navigation, radio work, gunnery, formation flying, night flights, bombing.
Then graduation, and active duty and with the Pacific Fleet. Here is a new kind of life at sea: squadron maneuvers, carrier landings, war games off Hawaii, with the most spectacular fighters in the world.
Transfer to another carrier on the East Coast brings cross-country flying, new, super-powered planes, and an uproarious private feud with the Army. Then Pensacola again, as a flight instructor, and the cycle is complete.
CONDITION: Hard Cover with DJ, DJ has fresh mylar cover over worn jacket. 1939, First Edition, 191 pages
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