Ironclaw: A Navy Carrier Pilot's Gulf War Experience

Just ten days out of land-based flight training and on the eve of the Persian Gulf War, Lieutenant Junior Grade Sherman Baldwin was assigned to Air Wing Five's EA-6B Prowler squadron--call sign Ironclaw--aboard the U.S.S. Midway. Flying the Prowler attack aircraft, Baldwin, his crew of three flight officers, and the rest of their squadron were responsible for identifying, jamming and destroying enemy radar.

In Ironclaw, Baldwin gives a compelling, tension-filled account of modern carrier warfare. From the tactical mission planning room belowdecks to the cockpit of his Prowler launching from zero to 150 knots in two seconds, the reader is there. Midair refuelings, day and night landings on the pitching deck of the Midway (at the time, our country's smallest carrier), and Desert Storm combat missions are all here just as he lived them.