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The Tomcat is the most popular US Navy aircraft of all time and quite possibly the best-known Cold War jet fighter of them all. This book covers the F-14 Tomcat's role as a precision bomber from the early 1990s through the early stages of the War on Terror until its retirement in 2006. Filled with first-hand accounts, in-action photos, and detailed histories on its operations, this book showcases the Tomcat in all its glory. AUTHOR: A Western Australian by birth, Tony Holmes was a published aviation author by the age of 20. Moving to England in 1988, he has worked in aviation publishing ever since. Tony has written more than 50 books and edited a further 300 in the past 25 years. Passionate about naval aviation, he has conducted more than 30 carrier embarks on US Navy and Royal Navy vessels across the globe, including nine visits to supercarriers sailing in the waters of the Northern Arabian Gulf whilst they were conducting operations over Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Western Australian by birth, Tony Holmes was a published aviation author by the age of 20. Moving to England in 1988, he has been involved full-time in aviation publishing ever since. In that time, Tony has written more than 60 books and edited a further 450. He has also written articles, bookazines and books for Key. Tony has a personal connection with the Spitfire, as his grandfather, John Holmes, served as one of the unsung ‘Few’ keeping No 74 Sqn’s Spitfires airworthy in 1939–41. Tony lives in Sevenoaks, Kent, with his wife Katy and sons Thomas and William.

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