Download Terror of the Autumn Skies: The True Story of Frank Luke, America's Rogue Ace of World War I AudioBook Free
Frank Luke, Jr., was an unlikely pilot. In the fantastic War, when fliers were still "knights of air", Luke was an ungallant loner, a youngster from Arizona who accumulated tarantulas, shot buzzards, and boxed miners. But during two torrid weeks in September 1918, he was the deadliest man on the American Front. In only 10 missions, he destroyed 14 heavily defended German balloons and four airplanes, a rampage unequalled even by the feared von Richtofen, and the second highest American tally of the complete war. Cocksure and constantly reprimanded, Luke was actually under arrest on your day of his final trip, but he stole a airplane to join the fatal action that acquired him the first Congressional Medal of Honor given to a pilot. Blaine Pardoe retraces and refreshes Frank Luke's account through recently uncovered correspondence. What emerges is a portrait of your life out of any "Old Western world" that was, by the past due Teens, colliding with modernity. Frantic, short, and splendid, the life span of Frank Luke, Jr. dramatizes the tragic involvement of an North american heart in the war that devastated European countries.
