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• Short-listed for John Lyman Book Award 2013
• Winner of Arthur Radford Award for Excellence in Naval Aviation History and Literature 2013

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Congratulations to Ohio University Press and Geoffrey Rossano for performing the admirable service of editing the diary of the United States Navy's first bona fide 'ace,' David S. Ingalls. Students of history and, especially, of naval aviation will find this a valuable resource and a window into the bygone age at the time of the Great War. Rossano informs Ingalls's own words with valuable commentary and astute editing. Buffs and scholars alike will enjoy the book immensely. - John T. Kuehn, associate professor of military history, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College In a modern era of cryptic messages on social media, it is refreshing to read the words of naval aviator David S. Ingalls, the depth and detail emerging from his letters and diary telling a deeply personal story of the U. S. Navy's first fighter ace. With the in-depth research and analysis characteristic of historian Geoffrey Rossano, Hero of the Angry Sky adds an important chapter to the century-old history of U. S. naval aviation, when young men like David S. Ingalls ushered in a new age in warfare. - Hill Goodspeed, Historian, National Naval Aviation Museum 'I'd rather shoot than be shot at,' (Ingalls) writes, and proves it in his cool accounts of dogfights in his Sopwith Camel, going on daily raids to seek out the Hun and coming back with a plane full of bullet holes. Ingalls returned to Yale still a teenager, highly decorated, and began a lifetime of public service, including a term as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Throughout the book Ingalls's letters and diary entries paint a portrait of a young man experiencing what few people his age would ever do. He comes across as intelligent and opinionated, as many young men are, but also with the colour of early 20th Century life and beliefs. By the time he died in 1985 Ingalls had seen events change his comfortable world into something much darker... This volume has enabled me to learn a bit more about the occasion, and also about my favourite V-bomber. I always thought the Valiant was a well-proportioned aeroplane; one of those that looked right from the beginning. In these pages the type's birth and development lead into its use in the 1956 Suez Campaign, the aforementioned nuclear trials, its roles as a trainer and inflight-refuelling tanker, its long-range reconnaissance capabilities, an overview of its service life, and, finally, its withdrawal from service. --The Aviation Historian

Congratulations to Ohio University Press and Geoffrey Rossano for performing the admirable service of editing the diary of the United States Navy's first bona fide 'ace, ' David S. Ingalls. Students of history<br>and, especially, of naval aviation will find this a valuable resource and a window into the bygone age at the time of the Great War. Rossano informs Ingalls's own words with valuable commentary and astute editing. Buffs and scholars alike will enjoy the book immensely. <br><br>John T. Kuehn<br>associate professor of military history<br>U.S. Army Command and General Staff College

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David S. Ingalls (1899–1985) was the son of railroad magnate Albert S. Ingalls and Jane Taft, niece of President William Howard Taft. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he began his studies at Yale in 1916, only to leave to join the First Yale Unit, becoming a member of the U.S. Naval Reserve Flying Corps. After the War, he returned to Yale and then received an LLD from Harvard. During his long and illustrious career, he worked as a lawyer, a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, and Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Air) in 1929. A graduate of Tufts University and the University of North Carolina, Geoffrey L. Rossano is an instructor of history at the Salisbury School in Salisbury, Connecticut. He is the author/editor of The Price of Honor: The World War One Letters of Naval Aviator Kenneth MacLeish; Stalking the U-Boat: U.S. Naval Aviation in Europe during World War I (winner of the 2010 Roosevelt Prize in Naval History); and Built to Serve: Connecticut’s National Guard Armories, 1865–1940, as well as numerous articles and papers in the fields of maritime, military, and aviation history. He is also the winner of the 2013 Arthur Radford Award for Excellence in Naval Aviation History and Literature, an award given for a body of work that includes Hero of the Angry Sky.

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