Perry Luckett and Charles Byler have written the first biography of Col. James Kasler, who is the only three-time recipient of the Air Force Cross, the second highest medal for wartime valor. Kasler served as an eighteen-year-old B-29 tail gunner in World War II, became a legendary jet ace in Korea, and was so famous in Vietnam that he was known by name in the White House. Major General Hoyt Vandenberg put Kasler, along with Chuck Yeager and Robbie Risner, as “head and shoulders above the rest as stick-and-rudder pilots.”
P.O.W.: Two Wars. Two Americans. Held Behind Enemy Lines
This ‘On the Record™’ dual biography shares the experiences of two American soldiers taken as Prisoners of War: Everett Alvarez in Vietnam and Shoshana Johnson in Iraq. Post Views: 743
