Koestler-Grack, Rachel

Eddie Rickenbacker Rachel A. Koestler-Grack - Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2003. - 112 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm. - Famous flyers .

Atlanta crash -- Boyhood -- Working years -- Racing years -- To the skies -- Buying an airline -- Lost in the Pacific -- Later years.

This series combines history and pleasure reading in a fast-paced narrative of the lives of some of the most famous, and infamous, aviators of the 20th century. Rickenbacker left the automobile racetrack he dominated to serve the United States as a fighter ace in the famous Hat-in-the-Ring squadron of World War I.

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Rickenbacker, Eddie 1890-1973


Air pilots--United States
Air pilots, Military--United States
World War--Aerial operations--American--1914-1918
World War--Aerial operations--American--1939-1945
Air pilots, Military.

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