Hoosier Aviator Paul Baer

America’s First Combat Ace

Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, Photography, Pictorials, History, Military, Aviation, Biography & Memoir, Historical
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Author: Tony Garel-Frantzen ISBN: 9781439663776
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc. Publication: November 27, 2017
Imprint: The History Press Language: English
Author: Tony Garel-Frantzen
ISBN: 9781439663776
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Publication: November 27, 2017
Imprint: The History Press
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Tony Garel-Frantzen celebrates the 100th anniversary of Baer's aerial heroics with rarely seen images, a previously unpublished POW letter from Baer himself and a look at the restless raptor's life of roaming.

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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Tony Garel-Frantzen celebrates the 100th anniversary of Baer's aerial heroics with rarely seen images, a previously unpublished POW letter from Baer himself and a look at the restless raptor's life of roaming.

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