Roaring out of the 1930’s comes the greatest heroes to ever fly WWI Europe’s unfriendly skies!
Straight from the tattered pages of Popular Publication’s air war pulps, Age of Aces Books is proud to be able to bring you the best of these heroes. Don’t spend all that time and money tracking down dozens of the crumbling original magazines looking for your favorite aviator. Age of Aces has done that for you. Each of our books contain stories featuring a single exciting character or written by one of your favorite authors. We are also doing some books that are not air war but still have a connection to that era and those magazines. All Age of Aces books are 6 X 9 trade paperback editions, and are available from Amazon.com.
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“Give Her The Gun” by Eustace L. Adams
A hydroplane stranded—an approaching submarine—a rescuing destroyer—and dead men tell no tales.
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Heroes of the Air: Major E. Mannock
“THIS highly distinguished officer, during the whole of his career in the Royal Air Force, was an outstanding example of fearless courage, remarkable skill, devotion to duty and self-sacrifice, which has never been surpassed.”
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“Sky Pictures” by Raoul Whitfield
Photographs, military and otherwise, bring trouble to a certain American flying squadron in France.
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How the War Crates Flew: Aerial Photography
Aerial photography! One of the most important branches of the flying service.
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“Aces Aren’t Born” by Robert Sidney Bowen
They’re re-born—fighting stark berserk in shrapnel-shredded skies for a crazy cause!
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Humpy & Tex in “Washed Out” by Allan R. Bosworth
One of them chewed tobacco and the other sang, but it wasn’t until they were pulled over the side of that mystery ship that Humpy and Tex sang “Hallelujah, I’m a bum.”
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“Knights of the Nieuport” by Andrew A. Caffrey
“Coupe Mike,” they called him. He was named a Lieutenant by the War Department, and Michael by an adoring mother. However, Fate dubbed him a Black Cat for luck until Fate changed his mind and so furnished the material for a bang-up air novelette.
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Heroes of the Air: Lieut. R.A.J. Warneford
TO SUB-LIEUTENANT Reginald Alexander John Warneford, V.C., belongs the honour of being the first British officer to bring down a Zeppelin.
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“The Last of Spad 16″ by O.B. Myers
Every day that lone Yank with the number 16 on his Spad swooped down out of the clouds and attacked single-handed a drome twenty-five miles behind the German lines—a daredevil stunt only one of America’s greatest aces would try. You couldn’t blame Oberleutnant Schmidt of the proud Schmidts of Brandenburg for plotting to see!
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How the War Crates Flew: Guns and Howitzers
Of course, there were various sizes of guns. The smallest being the eighteen-pounder and the largest being the twelve-inch gun. And even bigger than that if you want to count the navel guns they sometimes mounted on mobile platforms. However, regardless of the size of the gun, the bores were all rifled to give the desired twist to the shell as it left the muzzle, so that it would travel through the air the right way.
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