American Eagles

Hi Everyone,
I have finally uploaded my book "American Eagles - US Aviation In World War I" to Scribd.

This story started out for me as a project to research Quentin Roosevelt, Eddie Rick-enbacker, Frank Luke, Billy Mitchell, Carl Spaatz and the World War I American aviators in France.

The 348 page book is complete (including table of contents, references, etc.). It is a fascinating illustrated overview of the World War I American combat aviation – the planes, the people, the bases, the stories and what happened to them after the war. The book covers the training in the United States, the Lafayette Escadrille, observation aviation, balloon aviation, pursuit aviation, naval and marine aviation and bomber aviation.

Starting from 1861 and running through 1919, American Eagles is chock full of dogfights, back stories, new maps, diagrams, 170 photos (mostly never seen before), first hand perspectives of the American pilots as well as those who interacted with them. It weaves personal interviews, first hand perspectives, official histories and down to earth technical explanations to make a compelling, well documented and extensively researched page turner. In fact, combat is only perhaps one-third of the book.

22 months of research have dug up new information, photos and interviews that have not been published before thanks to visits to France, correspondence with French and American aviation experts and source material research.

Narayan