Yankee Ace in the RAF

The World War I Letters of Captain Bogart Rogers

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

AvJohn H. Morrow Jr.,Earl Rogers,John H Morrow Jr.,Earl Rogers

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Suffused with the romance of flight and the harsh realities of aerial combat, Rogers’s letters to his fiancée, Isabelle Young, vividly detail his wartime experiences against a lethal and elusive opponent exemplified by the likes of Baron von Richthofen’s Flying Circus. Of the three hundred-plus Americans who joined the British air corps in 1917, only Rogers and two dozen other volunteers became “aces” by shooting down five or more German planes. He himself claimed six “kills” in fighting during the Second Battle of the Marne, the Somme Offensive, Cambrai, Ypres-Lys, and six other major engagements.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-09-30
Mått155 x 233 x 14 mm
Vikt333 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieModern War Studies
Antal sidor256
FörlagUniversity Press of Kansas
ISBN9780700621439

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“Incontestably, Bogart Rogers had a way with words; his lively style is ideal for relating the adventures of a young man caught up in the world’s first air war. Where many other airmen struggled to convey the wonders of early flight, Bogart provides a deft and vivid portrait of life in the cockpit. It should appeal especially to the considerable readership of aviation buffs and military history aficionados.” —Lee Kennett, author of The First Air War, 1914–1918.