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The gooney bird: A wacky novel about the daffiest DC-3 in the U.S. Air Force [Mass Market Paperback]

William C Anderson (Author)
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"...authentic and well written, with characters that live." - Los Angeles Times, 1968 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Paperback Library/Crown Publishers; Paperback Library ed edition (1969)
  • ASIN: B0007HEAG6
  • Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,990,383 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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William C. Anderson (May 7, 1920 - May 16, 2003) was the author of several novels, historical and true life stories, and author or coauthor of several screenplays for film and television, including the adaptation of his own BAT*21, which was made into a film, starring Gene Hackman and Danny Glover, and Hurricane Hunters, was made into a TV-movie for ABC, starring Martin Milner.

He served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II up through the Vietnam War, retiring as a colonel. He began writing in the 1950s, with a series of columns for MATS Flyer, the magazine of the Air Force's Military Air Transport Service (later MAC Flyer, after MATS became the Military Airlift Command).

Several of his books were autobiographical accounts of the adventures of Anderson, his wife, Dortha, and their children, Ann, Scott and Holly.

 

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The Last Finest Hour of a flying Icon, October 20, 2007
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Marney E. Mason (Galveston, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This is an amazing story, attributed to one aircraft, but encompassing anecdotes from all C-47s ever. How an obsolete antique became the prototype for a fearsome genre of ground attack aircraft and had one final finest hour. Includes historical vignettes from the cold war and aviation history as a whole. A must read for aficianados of the Cold War, Viet Nam, military aircraft, C-47s, "Spooky", "Puff" and all the other names by which it came to be known.
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