"Hero of the Angry Sky" draws on the unpublished diaries, correspondence, informal memoir, and other personal documents of the U.S. Navy s only flying ace of World War I to tell his unique story. David S. Ingalls was a prolific writer, and virtually all of his World War I aviation career is covered, from the teenager s early, informal training in Palm Beach, Florida, to his exhilarating and terrifying missions over the Western Front. This edited collection of Ingalls s writing details the career of the U.S. Navy s most successful combat flyer from that conflict.
While Ingalls s wartime...