F-16 Fighter Pilot Dan Hampton, Ep. 52

The Team House

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History, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government

4.7 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Dan Hampton flew F-16 fighter jets in combat over 151 missions in both Iraq Wars before retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. In this episode we discuss his journey into the Air Force, the incredibly demanding weapons school for fighter pilots, combat operations he flew over Iraq, and some incredible stories about aerial dog fights during training. We also discuss Dan's new book Operation Vengeance about the American World War II fighter pilots who were sent on a secret mission to kill Admiral Yamamoto. Support the stream on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/TheTeamHouse

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Thanks for joining us tonight. I'm Jack Murphy here with co-host Dave Park. Our guest tonight is Dan Hampton. Dan is a retired F-16 pilot.
0:12.6	He is also an author.
0:14.5	He has written, well, first off, he wrote an autobiography
0:17.3	called Viper Pilot.
0:18.7	He is also the author of a number of historical aviation books as well, like the Hunter Killers,
0:28.4	words of the sky, the flight, chasing the demon.
0:31.6	He wrote a novel, which I really enjoyed called the demon. He wrote a novel which I really enjoyed called the mercenary and he is the author of a new book out called Operation Vengeance which Dave read. It's, guys, World War II history?
0:46.7	Yes, yeah, World War II history.
0:49.8	Well, actually, why don't you tell them, Dan?
0:51.8	Yeah.
0:52.9	Well, it's a pleasure to be here.
0:54.1	So thanks for the invitation, first of all.
0:58.4	Operation Vengeance is about the killing of Admiral Yamamoto,
1:03.1	the man who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor.
1:06.4	That's it in that show.
1:07.4	There's a lot of history
1:08.2	and some other things in the book,
1:09.4	but that's primarily what it is.
1:12.0	Yeah, and what, how did you get interested in in that particular topic because because
1:18.2	there's more to it than just the killing of him there there are some interesting
1:21.8	personalities involved some politics,
1:23.8	particularly afterwards that went on.
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