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Come Up and Get Me: An Autobiography of Colonel Joe Kittinger
by
Joe Kittinger
,
Craig Ryan
A few years after his release from a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp in 1973, Colonel Joseph Kittinger retired from the Air Force. Restless and unchallenged, he turned to ballooning, a lifelong passion as well as a constant diversion for his imagination during his imprisonment. His primary goal was a solitary circumnavigation of the globe, and in its pursuit he set s
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Paperback
,
272 pages
Published
April 16th 2011
by University of New Mexico Press
(first published June 16th 2010)
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Must read for Aerospace interested people
After seeing the small basket (now I know is a replica) he jumped out of, at the Air Force Museum in Dayton OH...this is a must read book. There is a lot more to his life than I knew.
After seeing the small basket (now I know is a replica) he jumped out of, at the Air Force Museum in Dayton OH...this is a must read book. There is a lot more to his life than I knew.
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