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Late 1943. 28,000 feet over the Alps. 2nd Lieutenant Robert "Buster" Kinsley is strapped into a P-47 Thunderbolt—a 13,000-pound monster that pilots joke is just a brick with an engine. When a flight of agile German Bf 109s ambushes him, panic overrides training. He commits the ultimate sin of aerial combat: he shoves the stick forward and enters a suicidal vertical dive.

As the airspeed indicator screams past 500 mph, Kinsley enters the deadly realm of compressibility. The air turns to concrete. The controls lock up. The manual says he is a dead man.

But Kinsley discovers a terrifying secret about the "Jug." While the fragile German fighters shatter under the G-forces of the recovery, the massive, over-engineered frame of the Thunderbolt holds fast.

This is the incredible true story of how a rookie’s panic attack unlocked the "Zoom Reversal" tactic—turning the P-47’s greatest weakness, its massive weight, into an unstoppable kinetic weapon that crushed the Luftwaffe.

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