Leo Thorsness: Vietnam: Valor in the Sky

by Michael P. Spradlin

Book Overview

For middle-grade readers, the true story of a pilot in the U.S. Air Force who received the Medal of Honor for his great acts of aerial valor.

Lieutenant Colonel Leo K. Thorsness was a Wild Weasel pilot in the Vietnam War, targeting enemy missile sites. On a 1967 mission, when his wingmen ejected from their burning aircraft, Thorsness initiated attacks on enemy planes and other daring maneuvers in order to protect them. Two weeks...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250157153
• ISBN13: 9781250157157
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 9 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 6