Aces of WWII

Anyone else ever read this book? If I remember right I read this thing 9-12 times when I was in the 6th grade. I'm debating on hunting down a copy. It should not be too hard as Omaha has tons of book stores that sell things like this for a few dollars.

 

I haven't read that book but I would like to. I used to buzz around with a WW2 ace by the name of Larry Blumer, seven kills, who got his first 5 in five minutes. All of them were FW-190's. A wild man. Is he mentioned in the book ?
Switches

 

Hmm, not sure I havent read it in close to 13 or so years. I know Bong, Blaske, "The Kid", and Pappy are mentioned.

 

Blumer was a P-38 pilot with the 9th AF and went through 5 P-38's, the last of which was named "SRAP IRON the FIFTH". He was a squadron leader and allowed two of his guys to go after a couple of German stooges that turned into a trap. He and his group went into war emergency power and dove to the area where his boys were jumped by a bunch of FW-190's. When Larry got there he was in a shallow dive going flat out and got one 190 when he arrived. He then pulled into a loop and got one at the top of the loop and one more at the bottom of the loop. He thought, " okay I'll just continue to loop in and out of the fight ." Which he did until he shot down 5 airplanes, all FW-190's. He did much more than that before it was over as he had a cigar box full of decorations.

 

There's a couple of "aces" titles here:

http://books.google.com/books?q=Aces+of+WWII+&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=wp

Check them out to see if it's the one...

Charlie
AKA Skyraider

 

Wife's uncle, Roy (Butch) Voris was an ace in the Pacific in WW2. Known for leading the Blue Angels, and naming them after the local bar. Interesting guy, once he got out, wasn't interested at all in flying. Used to say that had he been a few years younger, it'd have been him instead of anyone else in the Gemni program. Helped design the F14 also. Went to all of the schools, knew Yeager, etc. Pretty well known aviator, nice guy.

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Here's the site for Roy's book on the blue angels:

http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=jUM5mkq4uhMC&pg=PA319&lpg=PA319&dq=Aces+of+WWII&prev=http://books.google.com/books%3Fq%3DAces%2Bof%2BWWII%26lr%3D%26start%3D10&sig=BYOvjFJExFyWNTVKpA_GQfRLq4Q


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