Airman

Airman
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 568
Release: 1976
Genre: Aeronautics
ISBN:

The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle

The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle
Author: Robert Morgan
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2011-07-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0451233522

The riveting firsthand account of World War II pilot Robert Morgan, his crew, and the legendary Memphis Belle—written with Ron Powers, cowriter of the #1 New York Times bestseller Flags of Our Fathers. A powerful chronicle of loyalty, love, and heroism under fire, this is the unforgettable memoir of a member of the Greatest Generation who fought in America’s greatest battles—and of the war one man waged both in and out of the skies. High-spirited, young Robert Morgan was transformed from a fast-living, privileged playboy who grew up hobnobbing with the Vanderbilts into a steel-nerved pilot forged in the cauldron of World War II’s most dangerous and desperate aerial encounters. This is the triumphant tale of that transformation—and of the airplane and crew that never failed to bring him back home.

Bill Lambert

Bill Lambert
Author: Samuel J. Wilson
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2016-08-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1476664676

World War I fighter pilot William C. Lambert of Ironton, Ohio, flew for the British Royal Air Force in 1918. When he left the Western Front in August, he had 22 victories--then the most achieved by any American pilot. (By the time of the Armistice in November, his total was surpassed by Eddie Rickenbacker, the former race car driver from Columbus, Ohio, with 26 victories.) Lambert survived the war and lived into his eighties, unwilling until late in life to seek public acclaim for his war record. This book examines his life and the wartime experiences that defined it.