A Yankee Ace in the RAF: The World War I Letters of Captain Bogart Rogers (Modern War Studies) - Softcover

Morrow Jr., John H.; Rogers, Earl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0700621431 ISBN 13: 9780700621439

Verlag: University Press of Kansas, 2015

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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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John H. Morrow, Jr., is Franklin Professor of History at the University of Georgia and the author of The Great War in the Air and German Air Power in World War I.

Earl Rogers, Bogart’s son and a former naval aviator, still flies his own plane. He is a consulting civil engineer and freelance writer for In Flight USA and has written for Flying Magazine and other journals.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University Press of Kansas
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0700621431
• ISBN 13: 9780700621439
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 276
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Friedensallee 273; Hamburg; 22763; Deutschland