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- ISBN 9781841763750
- Weight: 348g
- Dimensions: 178 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 25 Sep 2001
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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American fliers arriving in Europe from September 1917 brought with them no aircraft.
Instead, US units had to obtain machines mainly from the British and French. From early 1918 American pilots were issued with SPAD fighters and they never looked back.
This compact book examines the American aces, the first of whom was Lt Douglas Campbell, who shot down five German aircraft by the end of May 1918. He was a member of the celebrated 94th 'Hat in the Ring' Aero Squadron, which created the bulk of American aces in World War I.
Norman Franks is one of the world’s leading authorities on World War 1 fighter aviation, having published some of the seminal works on the subject. He is currently working on a long list of volumes on Great War aces for Osprey’s Aircraft of the Aces series.
Berkshire-based Harry Dempsey is a talented profile artist who specialises in fighter aircraft of World War 1. He has illustrated a vast number of World War 1 titles in Osprey's ever-growing range of best-selling aviation titles.
