My Dear Moon, Rear Admiral Don Pardee Moon


Book Description

Rear Admiral Moon's death was officially ruled a suicide; but the testimony at the Board of Inquiry raises questions about what really happened- which Jonathan P Alter and Daniel Crouch present to the reader more than sixty years later in 'My dear Moon' .Drawing from extensive research, including e-mail interviews of veterans, primary source documents from the Moon family, old historical newspapers and Government documents- some obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests. Alter and Crouch unearth the mystery of the cause of this great man's death.




Rescue Pilot


Book Description

Naval aviator Dan McKinnon recounts the dramatic at-sea rescues conducted during his anything-but-peaceful peacetime service in the US Navy from 1956-1959. Rescue accounts include an ejected test-pilot; a crew member washed overboard their air carrier flight deck; and an amazing mission in the Red China Seas. The long shipboard assignments common to Navy history of time period are also portrayed along with details of flight training and survival training.