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Posted By:
Don Maxwell
Date Posted:
Feb 10, 2019
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This is the cover of Eddie Rickenbacker's WW I memoir, Fighting the Flying Circus.
(Actually, it's ONE cover; there are dozens of editions of the book, each with a different cover illustration. This is my favorite of them all.)
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1919
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France
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Don Maxwell
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Don Maxwell - Jan 20,2019
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If you haven't read it yet (or lately)--it's in the public domain and downloadable free here:
Just click on the link and then on the Download button, and the pdf will arrive in a trice. 371+ pages, including photos, maps, etc. Happy reading!
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Mark MacKinnon - Jan 21,2019
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Thanks Don, I'll check this out. WWI aviation is one of my interests.
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Don Maxwell - Jan 21,2019
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Mark, you probably know that Rickenbacker was the most-admired American pilot in that war. But of course it was a very short war for America. Von Richthoven, with 80 victories, was in it for about four times as long--some two years, compared to Rickenbacker's half-year and 26 victories.
The real story is complicated because Rickenbacker was already well known in America as an automobile racer before the war. Also, there was apparently a ghostwriter to smooth out Rickenbacher's writing for early publication immediately after the war and also to make him seem more modest than he really was. Here's something about that:
"FTFC was ghost-written by Laurence La Tourette Driggs, a popular aviation writer of the period. It was based on the diary and original text prepared by Rickenbacker in 1918.
"In 1997, Prof. W. David Lewis of Auburn University edited and annotated the original text. In this form, it was published in 1997 as the 95th book in the "Lakeside Classics" series, which are issued annually by R.R. Donnelly & Co. To quote the publishers preface:
" 'This edition represents a version of "Fighting the Flying Circus" that is as faithful as possible to the diary and original text prepared by Rickenbacker in 1918. But it also preserves the eloquent prose added by Laurence La Tourette Driggs, the ghost writer. The editor compared Rickenbacker's typewritten manuscript with the published 1919 version and eliminated many passages that were not based on the original manuscript.' "
See the link for a further discussion of that.
It might seem surprising today that Rickenbacker wrote quite well without help for a guy who dropped out of school in the seventh grade. But in his day, seventh grade was the median education level in America, so in that respect he was quite a typical guy!
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Mark MacKinnon - Jan 22,2019
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Wind In The Wires has always been one of my favorite books. Duncan Grinnell-Milne was a naturally gifted writer as well as WWI ace and CO of the RAF56 Squadron up to the end of the war:
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Paul Sanchez - Feb 10,2019
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I, too have an interest in WWI aviation. Here is a book that I received many years ago that is quite the read. Warbirds was originally written by Elliott White Springs, but it's actually the diary of one of his squadron mates that was K.I.A. If the name Springs rings a bell, he was instrumental in taking Springs Industries to a prosperous company. You may recognize them when you've purchased SpringMaid linen products. He was quite the artists as well, as he drew many of the Ad's that you use to see in Life magazine. Not sure why, but I wasnt able to add two website links so here's a photo of the book. This version is rather rare, but I believe there's other versions of the same story by other authors. Mine came from Springs daughter who my brother worked for as the Springs Industry Occupational Physician.
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Mark MacKinnon - Feb 10,2019
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I have this book by Springs. He also wrote the foreword. Found it at an airport years ago selling off a bunch of books. Copyright 1926.
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Don Maxwell - Feb 10,2019
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Fascinating, Paul! Here's a link to the SpringMaid ad that I think you had in mind (full of corny but witty puns and--in our era--political incorrectness). Click on the arrows to each side to see many, many more photos of Springs and others, airplanes, and lots more.
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