Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs Of Legendary Ace Robin Olds
The widely anticipated memoir of legendary ace American fighter pilot, Robin Olds
Robin Olds was a larger-than-life hero with a towering personality. A graduate of West Point and an inductee in th…
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