An Ace and His Angel: Memoirs of a WWII Fighter Pilot
This story was written by Herbert Brooks Hatch, Jr., one of America's living Fighter Pilot Aces from World War II.
Hatch flew a P-38 with the 71st Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, out of Salsola, Italy. Except for a brief deployment to Corsice to cover the invasion of Southern France, he flew his 59 missions out of Foggia #3. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with 11 Oak Leaf Clusters.
In his first book, An Ace and His Angel: Memoirs of a WWII Fighter Pilot, Hatch writes of the heroes and hardships endured by veterans of the Army Air Force.
Book details
- Author
- Herbert Brooks Hatch
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Hardcover, Paperback
- Subjects
- Biography & Autobiography › Military
History › Wars & Conflicts › World War II - Topics
- World War II · military memoir · Army Air Forces · aerial combat · Italy campaign · war heroes · Distinguished Flying Cross
- ISBN-13
- 9781563115745 (Hardcover)9781681624143 (Paperback)
About the author
HERBERT "STUB" HATCH was a United States Army Air Forces fighter pilot who flew P-38 Lightnings with the 71st Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, out of Salsola, Italy during World War II. He is the author of An Ace and His Angel: Memoirs of a WWII Fighter Pilot.
Hatch earned the Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished Flying Cross, and the Air Medal with 11 Oak Leaf Clusters. On June 10, 1944, during a mission over Ploesti, Romania, he shot down five enemy fighters in a single engagement, finishing the war with five confirmed aerial victories, one probable, and one damaged.
Herbert "Stub" Hatch was born on May 23, 1918, and died on April 24, 2002.
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