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008			150601s1962 nyu r 000 0 eng d
040			_aAM-YeNLA
041	0		_aeng
245	0	0	_aFighter pilot / _cedited by Stanley M. Ulanoff.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aGarden City, N.Y. : _bDoubleday & Company, Inc., _c1962.
300			_a430 p. : _bill., photos ; _c22 cm.
500			_aIndex: pp. 423-430
500			_aWith hard- and supercover
505	0	0	_aCont.: Introduction / Stanley M. Ulanoff -- pt. 1. Genesis : the Great War. Lafayette Escadrille : the first American volunteers. Birth of the Lafayette Escadrille / Major Edmund Gros. A volunteer / Lieutenant Norman Prince. Penguins learn to fly / Sergent James R. McConnell. Into action / Sergent Victor Chapman. A fighting fool / Adjudant Bert Hall. First blood / Captain Charles Nordhoff and Captain James Norman Hall. Hero's death (1) / Sergent Kiffin Rockwell. Hero's death (2) / Sergent James R. McConnell. It's a long way to Tipperary : Royal Flying Corps. Top man / Lieutenant Colonel William A. Bishop. The immortal ball / Captain Cecil Lewis. Precision fighter / Major James T.B. McCudden. Billy Barker, fighting Canadian / Lieutenant Colonel William Bishop. Ace from down under / Captain A.H. Coppy. Three combat reports / Second Lieutenant A. Ball and Captain J.B. McCudden. The French and Belgian allies. The avenger / Capitaine Rene Fonck. Balloon buster / Lieutenant Willy Coppens. The Yanks are coming. Decoy / Captain Elliott W. Springs. By the seat of our pants / Lieutenant Douglas Campbell. Knights of the Black Cross. The master / Leutnant Max Immelmann. Bloody Red Baron / Rittmeister Manfred von Richthofen. The synchronized machine gun / Anthony H.G. Fokker. Fokker triplane / Anthony H.G. Fokker -- pt. 2. Spanish Civil War. Scrimmage for the big show. A retread from the First World War / Teniente Orrin D. Bell. Franco's air hero / Comandante Joaquin Garcia-Morato y Castano -- pt. 3. Global war : World War II : Europe. Yanks in the RAF. Eagle Squadron / Unidentified pilot officer, RAF. The few to whom so many owe so much. Battle of Britain / Unidentified sergeant pilot, RAF. A sergeant pilot / Unidentified sergeant pilot, RAF. Wing leader / Group Captain J.E. "Johnnie" Johnson. Cross of Lorraine. "Alsace" in action / Commandant Rene Mouchotte. Frenchman in a tempest / Lieutenant Pierre Clostermann. Nothing
520			_aPersonal accounts of the men who flew the fighter planes, from World War I to Korea
650	1	4	_aAir warfare _9152887
650	1	4	_aWorld War, 1914-1918 _xAerial operations
650	1	4	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xAerial operations
700	1		_aUlanoff, Stanley M. _4edt
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