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An incredible history of the American WWI pilots who refused to be grounded. There was a time when the United States didnt believe in aerial warfare. Wars, after all, were for men??not flying machines. When Europe went to war in the summer of 1914, the U.S. military boasted a measly collection of five aircraft, with no training programs or recruitment procedures in place. But that didnt mean the country lacked skilled pilots. In fact, it was just the opposite. In The First Eagles, award-winning historian Gavin Mortimer engagingly profiles the restless, determined American aviators who grew tired of waiting for the their country to establish an aerial military force during World War I. It was these men who enlisted in Britains desperate and battered Royal Flying Corps when, in 1917, it opened a recruitment office in New York. After an intensive and deadly year of training that gave recruits a frighteningly realistic taste of the combat they would face, 247 fresh American RFC pilots were shipped over to Europe, with hundreds more following in the next two months. Twenty-eight of them claimed five or more kills to become feted as aces, their involvement lauded as pivotal to the Allied victory. In this book, Mortimer compiles their history through letters, diaries, memoirs, and archives from top museums in the United States and Britain??from John Donaldson, who left for France at age twenty and shot down seven Germans before being downed himself, to the Iaccaci brothers, who accounted for twenty-nine German aircraft between them. Complete with 150 period photographs, The First Eagles captures the bravery of these intrepid American pilots, who chose courage over idleness and saved the European skies.
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THE FEARLESS AMERICAN ACES WHO FLEW WITH THE RAF IN WORLD WAR I
GAVIN MORTIMER
But ye who fearless flew to meet the foe,
Eagles of freedom,nevermore, we know,
Shall we behold you floating far away.
Yet clouds and birds and every starry ray
Will draw our hearts to where your spirits glow
In the blue heaven.
In the Blue Heaven, Henry van Dyke, 1919
First published in 2014 by Zenith Press, an imprint of Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc., 400 First Avenue North, Suite 400, Minneapolis, MN 55401 USA
2014 Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc. Text 2014 Gavin Mortimer
All photographs are from the collection of Norman Franks unless noted otherwise.
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Digital edition: 978-1-62788-245-3
Hardcover edition: 978-0-76034-639-6
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mortimer, Gavin.
The first eagles : the fearless American aces who flew with the RAF in World War I / Gavin Mortimer.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-7603-4639-6 (hc w/jacket)
1. World War, 1914-1918--Aerial operations, American. 2. World War, 1914-1918--Aerial operations, British. 3. Fighter pilots--United States--Biography. 4. Great Britain. Royal Air Force--History--World War, 1914-1918. 5. Americans--Great Britain--History--20th century. I. Title.
D606.M67 2014
940.44841092313--dc23
2014004703
Aquiring Editor: Erik Gilg
Project Manager: Madeleine Vasaly
Design Manager: James Kegley
Cover Designer: Andrew Brozyna
Layout: Helena Shimizu
Map Designer: Philip Schwartzberg
Name | Alvin Callender |
Date and Place of Birth | 1893, New Orleans, Louisiana. |
Training and Shipment | Trained in Canada and shipped out to England February 1918. |
Service | 32 Squadron RAF |
Name | Laurence Callahan |
Date and Place of Birth | 1895, Louisville, Kentucky. |
Training and Shipment | Trained USA and shipped out to England on SS Carmania, September 1917. |
Service | 85 Squadron RAF and 148th Aero |
Name | Frank Dixon |
Date and Place of Birth | 1896, California. |
Training and Shipment | Trained USA and shipped out to England on SS Carmania, September 1917. |
Service | 209 Squadron RAF and 17th Aero |
Name | John Donaldson |
Date and Place of Birth | 1897, Fort Yates, North Dakota. |
Training and Shipment | Trained in Canada and shipped out to England May 1918. |
Service | 32 Squadron RAF |
Name | John McGavock Grider |
Date and Place of Birth | 1892, Sans Souci, Arkansas. |
Training and Shipment | Trained USA and shipped out to England on SS Carmania, September 1917. |
Service | 85 Squadron RAF |
Name | Frank Hale |
Date and Place of Birth | 1895, Syracuse, New York. |
Training and Shipment | Trained in Canada and shipped out to England May 1918. |
Service | 32 Squadron RAF |
Name | Lloyd Hamilton |
Date and Place of Birth | 1894, Troy, New York. |
Training and Shipment | Trained USA and shipped out to England on SS Carmania, September 1917. |
Service | 3 Squadron RAF and 17th Aero |
Name | Reed Landis |
Date and Place of Birth | 1896, Ottawa, Illinois. |
Training and Shipment | Trained USA and shipped out to England on RMS Aurania, August 1917. |
Service | 40 Squadron RAF and 25th Aero |
Name | Jens Larson |
Date and Place of Birth | 1891, Boston, Massachusetts. |
Training and Shipment | Enlisted in the RFC 1916 and trained in England. |
Service | 8, 34, and 84 Squadrons RAF |
Name | Oliver LeBoutillier |
Date and Place of Birth | 1895, Montclair, New Jersey. |
Training and Shipment | Trained in New York, shipped out from Canada fall 1916. |
Service | 209 Squadron RAF |
Name | Fred Libby |
Date and Place of Birth | 1892, Sterling, Colorado. |
Training and Shipment | Enlisted in the Canadian army 1914 and volunteered for the RFC 1916. |
Service | 11, 22, and 25 Squadrons RFC |
Name | Bennett Oliver |
Date and Place of Birth | 1895, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |
Training and Shipment |
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