The Balloon Buster
"THE BALLOON BUSTER" is about the life of Frank Luke - aka 'The Arizona Cowboy' - who was a top-ranking fighter ace on the Western Front with the United States Army Air Service (USAS) in 1918. Luke served with the 27th Aero Squadron between July and September 1918, achieving all of his victories...
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"THE BALLOON BUSTER" is about the life of Frank Luke - aka 'The Arizona Cowboy' - who was a top-ranking fighter ace on the Western Front with the United States Army Air Service (USAS) in 1918. Luke served with the 27th Aero Squadron between July and September 1918, achieving all of his victories flying the robust and redoubtable SPAD XIII fighter.
The book was originally published in 1928, 10 years after Luke's death.
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Format: mass market paperback
Publish date: 1966-08
Publisher: Bantam Books
Pages no: 121
Edition language: English
"THE BALLOON BUSTER" is a slim biography - told by the author with some dramatic flourishes - about America's No. 2 fighter ace of the First World War: Frank Luke, Jr. of Phoenix, Arizona (1897-1918). Luke's combat record with the 27th Aero Squadron is all the more remarkable because between Septemb...
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