War Bird Ace book

War Bird Ace - Field Kindley - World War 1 aviation history book War Bird Ace: The Great War Exploits of Capt. Field E. Kindley By Jack Stokes Ballard Texas A&M University Press, copyright 2007, 6.5 x 8.5 in, 208 pages, hardback From the book's front matter: There are only two ways left now of winning the war, and they both begin with A. One is aeroplanes and the other is America. -- Winston Churchill, Munitions Ministry, September 1917 From the book jacket: "At 8:57 A.M., July 13...a German Albatros plane came out of the clouds at Field in his Sopwith Camel. 'After climbing head-on over him, I half-rolled and shot two bursts of one hundred rounds into him at point blank range,' Kindley reported. 'Soon he and another [enemy aircraft] were on my tail, diving vertically at me...'" Captain Field E. Kindley, with the famous Eddie Rickenbacker, was one of America's foremost World War I flying aces. Like Rickenbacker's, Kindley's story is one of fierce dogfights, daring aerial feats, a