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Suffused with the romance of flight and the harsh realities of aerial combat, Rogers's letters to his fiancee, Isabelle Young, vividly detail his wartime experiences against a lethal and elusive opponent exemplified by the likes of Baron von Richthofen's Flying Circus.
The son of controversial Los Angeles attorney Earl Rogers ("the greatest jury lawyer of his time," claimed Clarence Darrow) and brother to pioneering Hearst journalist Adela Rogers St. Johns, Bogart made his mark in the Great War. Of the 300-plus Americans who joined the British air corps in 1917, only Rogers and two dozen other volunteers became aces by shooting down five or more German planes.
He himself claimed six "kills" in fighting during the Second Battle of the Marne, the Somme Offensive, dogfights over Cambrai, dashes at Ypres and Lys, and six other major engagements.
Rogers also had a definite flair for writing, one that launched his postwar career as a journalist and screenwriter in Hollywood. The letters in this volume are a striking testament to that skill. Lucid, reflective, highly articulate, and touched with flashes of humor, they illuminate the challenges of aviation training, daily life at the aerodrome, the liberating wonders of flight, and the sobering truths of a devastating war.
They also reflect Rogers's constant longing for his future bride "Izzy" (who celebrated her ninety-ninth birthday in 1996).
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Aerial operations, British, American Personal narratives, Biography, British Aerial operations, Correspondence, Fighter pilots, Great Britain, Great Britain. Royal Air Force, Personal narratives, American, World War, 1914-1918, World war, 1914-1918, great britain, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, american, Great britain, royal air force, World war, 1914-1918, aerial operationsPeople
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A Yankee ace in the RAF: the World War I letters of Captain Bogart Rogers
1996, University Press of Kansas
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0700607986 9780700607983
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