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Retired Naval Aviator Dan Pedersen’s “TOPGUN. AN AMERICAN STORY”
Host Diana Korte speaks with naval aviator Dan Pedersen, author of “TOPGUN. An American Story,” who was the boss of the group that formed the elite Navy Fighter Weapons School. Also known as the TOPGUN program, it began in Miramar, California 57 years ago. CLASSIC. I’m re-airing this 2019 conversation with Dan in 4th of July week because his advice at the end of it, in particular, is a good reminder of the wages of war. In this fast-paced memoir Dan, who enlisted in the US Navy in 1953, accumulated 7,000 flight hours and 1,014 carrier landings while flying 39 types of aircraft. He looks back…
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