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Hoosier Aviator Paul Baer: America's First Combat Ace

Hoosier Aviator Paul Baer: America's First Combat Ace

Garel-Frantzen, Tony

Hardcover

Military BiographiesGeneral PhotographyRegional: Midwest

Publisher Price: $31.99

ISBN10: 154022760X
ISBN13: 9781540227607
Publisher: History Pr
Published: Nov 27 2017
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Indiana native Paul Baer was an American pilot of many firsts. Born into a modest midwestern family in the late 1800s, Baer grew up short and shy in Fort Wayne. Not short on ambition, he volunteered to join a new breed of combatant: the fighter pilot. Dogfighting in the skies over France during World War I, Baer earned a giant reputation as the first-ever American to shoot down an enemy plane and the first to earn the title of combat ace for earning five victories--before being shot down himself. Author Tony Garel-Frantzen celebrates the 100th anniversary of Baer's aerial heroics with rarely seen images, a previously unpublished POW letter from Baer himself and a look at the restless raptor's life of roaming.

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