A Happy Warrior; Letters of William Muir Russel, an American Aviator in the Great War, 1917-1918... a Family Memorial
A Happy Warrior; Letters of William Muir Russel, an American Aviator in the Great War, 1917-1918... a Family Memorial

Author: William Muir Russel

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2015-09-03

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781341372957

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1919
1919

Author: William Bollman

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2013-02-21

Total Pages: 107

ISBN-13: 1466981717

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Edward O. Southard learned to fly the Curtiss JN-4 Jenny at March Field in Riverside, California, in 1919. About eighteen months earlier, William Muir Russel was honing his pilot skills at Ashburn Field and then Rantoul Aviation Field, both in Illinois. But thats where the differences in their early flying school experiences end. They both learned to fly in the same plane. They both saw frequent crashes. They both mastered the same controls, take-offs, and landings. And they both first flew solo in a Jenny. In 1919, author William H. Bollman melds Southards photographs, taken with a Brownie No. 2 Kodak box camera, with excerpts from Russels letters that were compiled in the book A Happy Warrior. The photographs and words describe what it was like to learn to fly in the same plane that Amelia Earhart first learned to fly in, and in the same plane that Charles Lindbergh first soloed in, in this entry in the Trip Back in Time: Vintage Photo Album Series. 1919 tells the story of what it was like to be among the very first to learn to fly this open-air biplane at a time when very few had even seen a plane up close.

A Happy Warrior; Letters of William Muir Russel
A Happy Warrior; Letters of William Muir Russel

Author: William Muir Russel

Publisher: Nabu Press

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781289726744

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A Happy Warrior; Letters of William Muir Russel
A Happy Warrior; Letters of William Muir Russel

Author: John Arthur Roebuck

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781016403658

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Remembering World War I in America
Remembering World War I in America

Author: Kimberly J. Lamay Licursi

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1496205677

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Poised to become a significant player in the new world order, the United States truly came of age during and after World War I. Yet many Americans think of the Great War simply as a precursor to World War II. Americans, including veterans, hastened to put experiences and memories of the war years behind them, reflecting a general apathy about the war that had developed during the 1920s and 1930s and never abated. In Remembering World War I in America Kimberly J. Lamay Licursi explores the American public's collective memory and common perception of World War I by analyzing the extent to which it was expressed through the production of cultural artifacts related to the war. Through the analysis of four vectors of memory--war histories, memoirs, fiction, and film--Lamay Licursi shows that no consistent image or message about the war ever arose that resonated with a significant segment of the American population. Not many war histories materialized, war memoirs did not capture the public's attention, and war novels and films presented a fictional war that either bore little resemblance to the doughboys' experience or offered discordant views about what the war meant. In the end Americans emerged from the interwar years with limited pockets of public memory about the war that never found compromise in a dominant myth.