Hero of the Angry Sky: The World War I Diary and Letters of David S.Ingalls, America's First Naval Ace (War and Society in North America)
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (877 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0821420186 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 350 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-07 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
David S. Ingalls was a prolific writer, and virtually all of his World War I aviation career is covered, from the teenager’s early, informal training in Palm Beach, Florida, to his exhilarating and terrifying missions over the Western Front. This edited collection of Ingalls’s writing details the career of the U.S. Hero of the Angry Sky draws on the unpublished diaries, correspondence, informal memoir, and other personal documents of the U.S. Navy’s most successful combat flyer from that conflict.While Ingalls’s wartime experiences are compelling at a personal level, they also illuminate the larger, but still relatively unexplored, realm of early U.S. Ingalls’s engaging correspondence offers a rare personal view of the evolution of naval aviation during the war, both at home and abroad. Ingalls’s extensive letters and diaries add significantly to historians’ store of available material.. naval avia
Five Stars good insight into ww 1. "Great read!" according to Finnius Ingalls. Great read - a window into a different era, different times, when honor and dignity were more prevalent - recommend reading. An All American Hero! A rare chance to understand why! A real hero for sure! I knew Mr. Ingalls on a professional basis when he was already into his eighties. When we would talk together, it was like having a fireside chat with both the man and the events of both great wars and also the inside stories of many of our poli
Army Command and General Staff College. Rossano informs Ingalls’s own words with valuable commentary and astute editing. Buffs and scholars alike will enjoy the book immensely.” John T. Students of history and, especially, of naval aviation will find this a valuable resource and a window into the bygone age at the time of the Great War. Ingalls. Congratulations to Ohio University Press and Geoffrey Rossano for performing the admirable service of editing the diary of the United States Navy’s first bona fide ace,’ David S. Kuehn, associate professor of military history, U.S