Buy this book on-line DUNN,WILLIAM. R: : Fighter Pilot: The First American Ace of World War IIUSA,LEXINGTON,KENTUCKY.UNIVERSITY PRESS KENTUCKY,1982. ISBN 0813114659.
US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/VG+.No owner inscrptn,unclipped dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy,laminated,colour pictorial illustrated (WWII aerial dog-fight,British vs German - Dunn's painting,"Fifth Victory," is reproduced on the front of the dw/dj, showing the air battle of 27th August,1941 in which he became the first American ace of WWII.) dw/dj with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - small closed tear to bottom edge of upper wrap - and top corners minimally rubbed with miniscule loss.Top+fore-edges lightly aged and minimally grubbed/thumbed;contents bright,tight,crisp and clean.Publisher's bright,clean,unblemished publisher's original air-force blue cloth boards with bright,blocked blue silvered gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a headband and immaculate plain white endpapers.US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, xpp+2-234pp [paginated] includes half-title+ title pages,poem,a contents list/table,author preface,a prologue,11 chapters,24pp contemporary b/w photographs between pp150/51, epilogue, appendix,an index and 4pp blanks to rear.
Within a week after Britain and France declared war on Germany in 1939 a young American named William R. Dunn crossed the Canadian border with the intention of volunteering for the Royal Canadian Air Force.Dunn decided in 1928,at the age of twelve,to become a fighter pilot; nevertheless,when thwarted in his effort to join the RCAF,he volunteered for the Canadian Army and was sent to England.There,after the Royal Air Force suffered heavy pilot losses in the Battle of Britain,Dunn was transferred from the infantry to the RAF.He was the first pilot in the famous Eagle Squadron of American volunteers to shoot down an enemy aircraft,and later became the first American ace of the war.After transferring to the U.S. Army Air Force in 1943, he saw action in the Normandy invasion and in the tactical air support of Patton's sweep across France.He completed his WWII service in the Burma and China campaigns,then served in the Chinese Civil War: twenty years later,he fought again in Vietnam.
Dunn vividly conveys the fighter pilot's experience of war - the tension of combat,the harsh grip of fear,the love of aircraft,the elation of victory,the boisterous comradeship and competition of the pilot brotherhood and their scorn for the non-combatant military adminstrators.'Fighter Pilot' is both a gripping adventure story and a unique historical document.
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