LEADER 02824nam 2200517 450 001 9910816628603321 005 20170924174703.0 010 $a1-4930-2288-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000846758 035 $a(EBL)4503910 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4503910 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000846758 100 $a20160914h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aAmerican hero $ethe true story of Tommy Hitchcock : sports star, war hero, and champion of the war-winning P-51 Mustang /$fNelson W. Aldrich, Jr. ; prologue and epilogue by Richard L. Jackson 210 1$aGuildford, Connecticut :$cLyons Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (373 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-4930-2287-3 327 $aContents; 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 330 $aTommy 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 high-altitude fighter escort, thereby saving the lives o 606 $aPolo players$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aBankers$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xAir pilots, Military 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAir pilots, Military 606 $aMustang (Fighter plane)$xMerlin engines$xDesign and construction$xHistory 615 0$aPolo players 615 0$aBankers 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xAir pilots, Military. 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAir pilots, Military. 615 0$aMustang (Fighter plane)$xMerlin engines$xDesign and construction$xHistory. 676 $a940.5481092 700 $aAldrich$b Nelson W.$01618287 702 $aJackson$b Richard L. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816628603321 996 $aAmerican hero$93949917 997 $aUNINA