Download or read book Fighting The Flying Circus Illustrated Edition written by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Aerial Warfare During World War I Illustrations Pack with 115 maps, plans, and photos. Captain Rickenbacker, originally from Ohio, was best known as one of the Commanders of the 94th “Hat-in-the-Ring” Squadron, a crack unit of pilots which included many former members of the famed Lafayette Escadrille. The 94th ended the war in France with the highest number of air victories of any American squadron. Captain Rickenbacker himself was credited with 26 aerial victories all within the last six months of the war, he was decorated with the Congressional Medal Of Honor for his inspirational leadership and fearless flying.
Download or read book Fighting the Flying Circus written by Eddie Rickenbacker and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... heavenward. After thirty minutes industriously occupied in throwing my pursuers off my trail, I ventured out of concealment and gratefully made my way home. There on the field two of my dear old comrades were waiting for me to come in. What anxiety they would have suffered if they had known what I had just been through! "Hello, Rick! Why the devil didn't you wait for us? " Doug Campbell inquired, as I began to climb out of my machine. "We chased you all over France trying to catch up with you!" "Where did you go, Eddie, after we lost you in those clouds?" demanded Charley Chapman, looking at" me interestedly as he leaned against my suspended leg. "We've been home almost half an hour!" Here, it seemed were the two pilots -- American instead of B-oche -- who had been chasing me. I. thought very intently for a quarter of a second. Then I pushed Chapman away and descended from my machine. "I thought I remembered seeing a Boche back in Germany and went back to make sure," I replied easily. "But I guess I was mistaken." CHAPTER IV DOWNING MY FIRST HUN IT will be noticed that my preparation for combat fighting in the air was a gradual one. As I look back upon it now, it seems that I had the rare good fortune to experience almost every variety of danger that can beset the war pilot before I ever fired a shot at an enemy from an aeroplane. This good fortune is rare, it appears to me. Many a better man than myself has leaped into his stride and begun accumulating victories from his very first flight over the lines. It was a brilliant start for him and his successes brought him instant renown. But he had been living on the cream at the start and was unused to the skim-milk of aviation. One day the cream gave out and the first dose of skim-milk...
Download or read book Fighting the Flying Circus Classic Reprint written by Edward V. Rickenbacker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fighting the Flying Circus Eddie Rickenbacker's stories of his air battles in France are of exciting interest, both in the narration of the thrilling adventures with enemy airmen and in the revealment to the reader of his intimate thoughts and feelings, as he went out day after day to attack the boasted champions of the German Air Service. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Fighting the Flying Circus written by Edward Vernon. Rickenbacker and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flying the Fighting Circus written by Edward V. Rickenbacker and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... heavenward. After thirty minutes industriously occupied in throwing my pursuers off my trail, I ventured out of concealment and gratefully made my way home. There on the field two of my dear old comrades were waiting for me to come in. What anxiety they would have suffered if they had known what I had just been through "Hello, Rick Why the devil didn't you wait for us? " Doug Campbell inquired, as I began to climb out of my machine. "We chased you all over France trying to catch up with you " "Where did you go, Eddie, after we lost you in those clouds?" demanded Charley Chapman, looking at" me interestedly as he leaned against my suspended leg. "We've been home almost half an hour " Here, it seemed were the two pilots -- American instead of B-oche -- who had been chasing me. I. thought very intently for a quarter of a second. Then I pushed Chapman away and descended from my machine. "I thought I remembered seeing a Boche back in Germany and went back to make sure," I replied easily. "But I guess I was mistaken." CHAPTER IV DOWNING MY FIRST HUN IT will be noticed that my preparation for combat fighting in the air was a gradual one. As I look back upon it now, it seems that I had the rare good fortune to experience almost every variety of danger that can beset the war pilot before I ever fired a shot at an enemy from an aeroplane. This good fortune is rare, it appears to me. Many a better man than myself has leaped into his stride and begun accumulating victories from his very first flight over the lines. It was a brilliant start for him and his successes brought him instant renown. But he had been living on the cream at the start and was unused to the skim-milk of aviation. One day the cream gave out and the first dose of skim-milk...
Download or read book Fighting the flying circus written by Laurence La Tourette Driggs and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Vanguard Of American Volunteers In The Fighting Lines And In Humanitarian Service written by Edwin Morse and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with 6 portraits Even before the official entry of the United States of America into the First World War in April 1917, many of its citizens had already crossed over “The Pond” and already had lent their efforts to the Allied cause. The author Edwin Morse set himself a terribly difficult task to record even a handful of these gallant soldiers, doctors, surgeons and aviators; he selected as a sampling of 34 different stories which he set out to tell in brief. Those he selected contributed to the Allied cause in different and diverse ways - some joined the Foreign Legion, some the British Army, others supported the medical services or drove ambulances; still further more joined the French Army aviators and formed the famous Lafayette Escadrille.
Download or read book JOE FOSS FLYING MARINE The Story Of His Flying Circus As Told To Walter Simmons Illustrated Edition written by Colonel Joseph "Joe" Foss U.S.M.C. and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with 22 photos of the Author, his unit and his life. The top American Fighter Ace of World War Two recounts his experiences, combats and victories in the skies above the Pacific. His citation for the Congressional Medal of Honour gives the bare unadorned facts about the eagle-eyed flyer from Sioux Falls, South Dakota; “For outstanding heroism and courage above and beyond the call of duty as executive officer of Marine Fighting Squadron 121, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, at Guadalcanal. Engaging in almost daily combat with the enemy from 9 October to 19 November 1942, Captain Foss personally shot down 23 Japanese planes and damaged others so severely that their destruction was extremely probable. In addition, during this period, he successfully led a large number of escort missions, skillfully covering reconnaissance, bombing, and photographic planes as well as surface craft. On 15 January 1943, he added 3 more enemy planes to his already brilliant successes for a record of aerial combat achievement unsurpassed in this war. Boldly searching out an approaching enemy force on 25 January, Captain Foss led his 8 F-4F Marine planes and 4 Army P-38’s into action and, undaunted by tremendously superior numbers, intercepted and struck with such force that 4 Japanese fighters were shot down and the bombers were turned back without releasing a single bomb. His remarkable flying skill, inspiring leadership, and indomitable fighting spirit were distinctive factors in the defense of strategic American positions on Guadalcanal.” One of the most thrilling combat memoirs written of World War Two. Highly recommended.
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Download or read book With The French Flying Corps Illustrated Edition written by Carroll Dana Winslow and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Petite bleu to pilote-a young American’s flight into war The author of this book, Dana Winslow, was a young American in Paris as France recruited men to fight the invading German forces of the Kaiser at the outbreak of the First World War. Feeling strongly for the plight and cause of the French, he immediately went to Les Invalides and there enlisted in the French Flying Corps as a trainee pilot. This vital first hand account is an essential source work of the period which reveals the training of the earliest French military aviators of the great conflict on the Western Front and it follows Winslow on his ‘rite of passage’ from inexperienced civilian, to lowly and little regarded aeronautical student (petit bleu) through his first perilous days in the combat zone to his time as an experienced and much prized pilote in the hostile skies over the trenches of the front lines. As may be expected, Winslow takes us to his war of dogfights, mid-air collisions, artillery spotting and reconnaissance in vivid-if humbly recounted-detail. Winslow’s book is especially valuable as an insight into the variety of aircraft employed by the French during his time with them and he provides useful details as to their construction, abilities, applications and flying characteristics such-as those of the peculiar ‘cut down’ Bleriot that was ‘the Penguin.’ He also gives an interesting view of the business of military flying in wartime, which he distinguishes as entirely separate from piloting, as he describes it, as a mere ‘conductor.’ Accounts of battling in the air during the Great War are not common, so this volume is, of course, a welcome addition to their limited number and will be of interest to everyone interested in the subject.”—Leonaur Print Version. Author — Winslow, Carroll Dana. Text taken, whole and complete, from the edition published in New York, C. Scribner’s sons, 1917. Original Page Count – xi and 226 pages Illustration — 15 illustrations.
Download or read book Country Life written by Henry Hodgman Saylor and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Doctor Dolittle Series Illustrated Edition written by Hugh Lofting and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-08 with total page 1963 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you a meticulously edited Doctor Dolittle collection. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: The Story of Doctor Dolittle Doctor Dolittle's Post Office Doctor Dolittle's Circus Doctor Dolittle's Caravan The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle Doctor Dolittle's Zoo Doctor Dolittle's Garden Doctor Dolittle in the Moon Doctor Dolittle's Return Doctor Dolittle and the Secret Lake John Dolittle is a doctor who shuns human patients in favor of animals, with whom he can speak in their own languages. He later becomes a naturalist, using his abilities to speak with animals to better understand nature and the history of the world. The stories are set in Victorian England, where Doctor Dolittle lives in the village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh in the West Country.
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Download or read book Fighting the Flying Circus written by Eddie Rickenbacker and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Joseph M Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South Carolina written by Elizabeth A. Sudduth and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South Carolina: An Illustrated Catalogue provides a reference tool for the study of one of the great watershed moments in history on both sides of the Atlantic serving historians, researchers, and collectors.
