American hero
Subtitle: the true story of Tommy Hitchcock : sports star, war hero, and champion of the war-winning P-51 Mustang
By: Nelson W. Aldrich, Jr. ; prologue and epilogue by Richard L. Jackson
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781493022878
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Military Air pilots; Mustang (Fighter plane); Bankers; Merlin engines; Design and construction; United States; Biography; World War, 1939-1945; United States. Army. Air Service. Aero Squadron, 103rd; Polo players; History
Work titles: Tommy Hitchcock, an American hero
Description: Presents the life of Tommy Hitchcock, the World War I fighter pilot and war hero, legendary polo player, who the prominent socialite Tom Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby" is modeled after.
Notes: Originally published under title: Tommy Hitchcock, an American hero. Gaithersburg, Md. : Fleet Street Corp., 1984.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Aiken, Westbury, and St. Paul's school, 1900-1917; title: France, 1917-1918; title: Germany, 1918; title: Freedom, 1918-1922; title: New York, 1922-1927; title: Courtship and marriage, 1927-1929; title: The thirties; title: Washington and London, 1940-1944; title: Tommy Hitchcock's role in the Battle of the Atlantic; title: Appendix: memories of a hero.