Hat in the Ring. The Birth of American Air Power in the Great War.
Washington, DC: Smithsonian, (2003), First Edition. octavo, boards in pictorial dust jacket. xviii, (322)pp. Smithsonian, Illustrated with photographs. When Congress declared war in April 1917, the Europeans had already deployed their third generation of fighters, equipped with machine guns and capable of speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour..... More