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Luck on the Wing: Thirteen Stories of a Sky Spy

Chapter 3: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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A collection of first-person wartime aviation episodes that follow an aerial observer through hurried training, deployment to combat squadrons, and reconnaissance flights over the front. The stories mix hazardous missions and mechanical anxieties with camaraderie, small acts of bravery, and encounters with civilians and entertainers. Technical detail and reflective asides illuminate fear, luck, and stubborn persistence in the air, while episodic anecdotes and dry humor convey the unpredictable dangers and daily rhythms of early military aviation.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Gen. William Mitchell, Commander-in-Chief of the American Air Forces, at the Front Frontispiece
 
FACING PAGE
 
An Operation Room of an American Squadron at the Front, Showing Battle Maps, War Plans and Photographs 34
 
The Village of Vaux on the Day Preceding the Battle of Vaux 74
 
The Village of Vaux During the Battle of Vaux, July 1, 1918 78
 
Tanks Going into Action, and Tracks Left by Them 128
 
Pagny-Sur-Meuse, Showing Prisoners Captured by the Americans at St. Mihiel 154
 
A Captured German Photograph Showing American Prisoners 200
 
Colonel Brereton, Major Haslett and Others Being Decorated at Coblenz 296