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Aldrich Nelson W. |
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American hero : the true story of Tommy Hitchcock : sports star, war hero, and champion of the war-winning P-51 Mustang / / Nelson W. Aldrich, Jr. ; prologue and epilogue by Richard L. Jackson |
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Guildford, Connecticut : , : Lyons Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (373 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Polo players - United States |
Bankers - United States |
World War, 1914-1918 - Air pilots, Military |
World War, 1939-1945 - Air pilots, Military |
Mustang (Fighter plane) - Merlin engines - Design and construction - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Introduction; Chapter One. Aiken, Westbury, and St. Paul's School, 1900-1917; Chapter Two. France, 1917-1918; Chapter Three. Germany, 1918; Chapter Four. Freedom, 1918-1922; Chapter Five. New York, 1922-1927; Chapter Six. Courtship and Marriage, 1927-1929; Chapter Seven. The Thirties; Chapter Eight. Washington and London, 1940-1944; Epilogue: Tommy Hitchcock's Role in the Battle of the Atlantic; Appendix: Memories of a Hero; Index |
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Tommy Hitchcock: An American Hero intertwines the private lives of Tommy Hitchcock, an enormously wealthy socialite, and such notables as Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Averell Harriman, Ambassador to England Gil Winant, FDR, and General Hap Arnold, commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces during WWII. Tommy also flew for the Lafayette Escadrille during the Great War, getting shot down by the Germans and then escaping to Switzerland. A true hero, during WWII he reenlisted and successfully cajoled the Army Air Forces into adopting the P-51 as a |
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high-altitude fighter escort, thereby saving the lives o |
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