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CHANNING (Grace E.) Ed. & Intro.
War Letters of Edmond Genet, The First American Aviator Killed Flying the Stars & Stripes.
1st Ed., xxv+330pp., portrait frontis., 7 plates. NY: Scribner's.
1918
#66492
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Edmond Charles Clinton Genet was born in 1896. Contains a memoir & letters from the US Navy (at Vera Cruz & Hayti in 1914); afterwards with the French Foreign Legion in the trenches 1915-16 before tranferring to the flying service &, after training as a pilot, joined the Lafayette Escadrille in Dec. 1916. He was Killed in Action on 16/4/1917. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, little rubbed & worn-ex-lib., with usual markings, o/w VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.
£45
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