Fighter Pilot
eBook - ePub

Fighter Pilot

The First American Ace of World War II

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Fighter Pilot

The First American Ace of World War II

About this book

This WWII fighter pilot memoir recounts the author's many exploits as a flying ace during WWII in the Normandy invasions, the Battle for France and beyond.
 
Born in Minneapolis in 1916, William R. Dunn decided to become a fighter pilot at the age of twelve. In 1939 he joined the Canadian Army and was soon transferred to the Royal Air Force. As part of the RAF's famous Eagle Squadron, Dunn was sent to Europe to fight in the Second World War. Flying Hawker Hurricanes and Supermarine Spitfires, he was the first Eagle Squadron pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft. When he later transferred to the US Army Air Forces, he became the first American ace of the war.
 
Lieutenant Colonel Dunn saw action in the Normandy invasion and in Patton's sweep across France. Twenty years later he fought again in Vietnam. In this lively memoir, Dunn keenly conveys the fighter pilot's experience of war—the tension of combat, the love of aircraft, the elation of victory, the boisterous comradeship and competition of the pilot brotherhood.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Foreword
  8. Preface
  9. Prologue: The Early Years
  10. 1. The Ladies from Hades
  11. 2. First from the Eyries
  12. 3. Baptism to Air Battle
  13. 4. For the King’s Shilling
  14. 5. The Ace
  15. 6. Holiday at the Seaside
  16. 7. In the Eye of the Storm
  17. 8. Air Offensive Europe
  18. 9. D-Day and Operation Overlord
  19. 10. The Battle for France
  20. 11. War in the Far East
  21. Epilogue: The Later Years
  22. Appendix: The War Birds
  23. Index
  24. Illustrations