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Above the French Lines: Letters of Stuart Walcott, American Aviator: July 4, 1917, to December 8, 1917. 1st Ed., v+93pp., portrait frontis., 2 plates. Princeton Univ. Press. 1918  #66494
[HLMainPic] Memoir & letters. Walcott graduated from Princeton in 1916 &, influenced in part by Carroll Winslow's account of flying in France (qv), he trained to be a pilot & joined the Lafayette Escadrille. On 12th December 1917 he was shot down in his first aerial combat, having himself already downed one EA on this occasion. Orig. pale blue cloth, titled in black to front & sp., VG with citation for the Croix de Guerre avec Palme posthumously awarded to him neatly written out on rear endpapers ("on December, 12, 1917, attacked an enemy airplane. He pursued it four kilometers behind the German line, where he brought it down. He was in turn attacked by three other monoplanes & was driven down.")   £65

     




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