The First Fighter Pilot - Roland Garros: The Life and Times of the Playboy Who Invented Air Combat, Hardcover - Ed Cobleigh

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Ed, "Fast Eddie, " Cobleigh served two tours of duty during the Vietnam air war, logging 375 combat sorties in the F-4 Phantom fighter/bomber. In W...

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