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North American Aviation in the Jet Age: The California Years, 1945–1997 By John Fredrickson Schifferbooks.com During the waning days of World War II, a race was underway in rubble-strewn Europe as U.S. and Soviet forces sought to grab advanced weapons technology developed by the Germans. Over the next quarter century North American Aviation (NAA) would develop these spoils of war into fearsome weapons for America’s arsenal. There was the swept-wing F-86 Sabre jet fighter, which...

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