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Letters of An American Airman: Being the War Record of Capt. Hamilton Coolidge, U.S.A., 1917-1918.
1st Ed., ix+231pp., silhouette frontis., 2 portrait photos. Boston: Privately Printed.
1919
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Coolidge enlisted in the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps at Key West in March 1917, graduated as a pilot & sailed overseas in July & after several months in France organising schools of aviation he joined the 94th Aro Squadron, USA, First Pursuit Group & downed eight EA/balloons until killed in action by ant-aircraft fire near Grand Pre on 27th October 1918. Posthumously awarded American Distinguished Service Cross, French Croix de Guerre & a unit citation. Letters written from July 1917 (sailing from Oyster Bay for France) up to the day before his death in action. Rare original edition, orig. paper covd. boards, dark blue cloth bacsktrip neatly replaced, gilt title to sp., additionally titled in gilt to front, inscribed in ink by a family member: "Geo. W. Martin from J.R.C. III March 1 1920." See illustrations on our website.
£225
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