Now finished the biography and what a read it was. I'm now not so sure he was the 'best' fighter pilot of all time. Difficult to quantify that anyway as he did not get the opportunities that the Luftwaffe pilots got on the Russian front in WW2. In fact his kill tally was quite small, even compared with some RAF pilots in WW2, but he joined that fight very late in the war and of course kills were quite restricted in Vietnam. Much to his annoyance, he missed Korea. He was a maverick and very much a thorn in the side of the Pentagon. But I suppose they could not get rid of him, for several reasons. It is a pity that he wrote rather a lot about his personal life and the book ended on a sad note with the reading getting an impression of an old very disappointed man who was infirm and waiting to die. But he will be remembered for leading the F4 Wolfpack over North Vietnam. A larger than life character and certainly an interesting one. RIP Robin, wish I had met you.