Hoosier Aviator Paul Baer
America’s First Combat Ace
Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, Photography, Pictorials, History, Military, Aviation, Biography & Memoir, Historical
| 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Tony Garel-Frantzen celebrates the 100th anniversary of Baer's aerial heroics with rarely seen images, a previously unpublished POW letter from Baer himself and a look at the restless raptor's life of roaming.
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Tony Garel-Frantzen celebrates the 100th anniversary of Baer's aerial heroics with rarely seen images, a previously unpublished POW letter from Baer himself and a look at the restless raptor's life of roaming.
