book ECHOES OF EAGLES WOOLLEY 95TH AERO SQUADRON PILOT BIOGRAPHY

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book ECHOES OF EAGLES WOOLLEY 95TH AERO SQUADRON PILOT BIOGRAPHY
book ECHOES OF EAGLES WOOLLEY 95TH AERO SQUADRON PILOT BIOGRAPHY
ECHOES OF EAGLES:
A SON'S SERACH FOR HIS FATHER AND THE LEGACY OF AMERICA'S FIRST FIGHTER PILOTS
By Charles Woolley with Bill Crawford
Printed in 2003 - Stated First Edition
308 pages  - Hardcover (9 inches - 23 cm tall)
Illustrations - Index
CONDITION: Very good, light general aging. Binding solid, pages clean.
The son of a WWI aviator and a freelance writer have produced an absorbing and readable biography of the senior author's father. A middle-class Bostonian, Charles H. Woolley entered the war as a volunteer ambulance driver, then transferred to the U.S. Air Service. There he went through the nerve-wracking training process, flew Nieuport 28s (which often shed wings) and Spad XIII's (which sometimes didn't fly at all) with the 95th and 49th Aero Squadrons. He ended the war as a major with two kills. He never got flying out of his blood, either, working with Amelia Earhart and serving in WWII, before his death in 1962. The narrative assembled from his diaries and by painstaking interviews and research by the younger Woolley brings out the triumphs and disasters, the tragedies, follies, primitive equipment and partying of that generation of pilots. It also paints vivid portraits of many of Woolley's comrades, including the gallant Quentin Roosevelt, the former president's youngest son who was killed in action, and the strait-laced Waldo Heinrichs, who became a POW.
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