Books by Ernest Gann


Title: The Black Watch
Author: Ernest Gann

This book was the last book published by Ernest Gann before his death. "The Black Watch" is about pilots in a U-2 squandron. If you don't know U-2s are the high altitude spy airplanes that are still flown by the Airforce and the CIA (and NASA for doing high altitude research).

The names are changed and the story is somewhat fictionalized, since U2 operations are classified. The story is told from the point of view of a pilot just joining the U-2 squadron based at the Beale AFB in California.


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