Leland “Chip” Shanle Jr., Lieutenant Commander, USN (Ret.) closed out his Naval Aviation career in 1998 with 600 carrier landings (200 at night) on eleven different carriers. During his career, he flew 16 different naval aircraft in 10 squadrons including the F-4 Phantom II, EA-6B Prowler, and TA-4J Skyhawk. He cruised on the USS Midway, America and Lincoln, and flew 80 missions over the war-torn skies of Bosnia, Somalia, and Iraq. An Airline Transport Pilot and Certified Flight Instructor, he has flown numerous civilian aircraft from the Cessna 150 to the Boeing 777-300. His first novel in his World War II Aviator Series, Project 7 Alpha, won the Military Writers Society of America’s (MWSA) Gold Award for Historical Fiction in 2012. He followed that up with Vengeance at Midway and Guadalcanal, and Endgame in the Pacific. Code Name: Infamy is fourth in the series. In addition to writing articles on a
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