8 Bells Lecture | Geoffrey L. Rossano: Hero of the Angry Sky: The WW I Diary and Letters...
Channel: U.S. Naval War College
Date: 2014-02-21

Geoffrey L. Rossano and William F. Trimble, "Hero of the Angry Sky: The World War I Diary and Letters of David S. Ingalls, America's First Naval Ace" Eight Bells Book Lecture, Naval War College Museum, Feb. 20, 2014.

Hero of the Angry Sky draws on the unpublished diaries, correspondence, informal memoir, and other personal documents of the U.S. Navy's only flying "ace" of World War I to tell his unique story. This edited collection of Ingalls's writing details the career of the U.S. Navy's most successful combat flyer from that conflict.  While Ingalls's wartime experiences are compelling at a personal level, they also illuminate the larger, but still relatively unexplored, realm of early U.S. naval aviation.

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