Fifteen Days in the Air
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1928. Octavo, frontispiece, [vi], 194, pp., advertisements. a little gentle spotting of the edges, old ownership inscription to front endpaper, a near fine copy in original cloth with good dust jacket (a bit chipped and water-stained). Part of the In the Air with Andy Lane series of juvenile novels where Andy refuels his ship in the air and sets a world's endurance record. The author is stated on the dust jacket to have enlisted in the Lafayette Escadrille after his second trip to France as an ambulance driver. In Friends of France, The Field Service of the American Ambulance Described by its Member, Eustace L. Adams is listing as entering the Ambulance Service in February 1915 and leaving the Service in June 1915 service in Col. T.C. Sec. 3 with an address in Newtonville, Massachusetts. However, his biography does not appear in The Lafayette Flying Corps by Hall and Nordhoff. The dust jacket goes on to state that he transferred to the U.S. Naval Aviation Service and flew with squadrons patrolling the Atlantic coast. A picture of the author on the dust jacket states that the "snapshot was taken while Mr. Adams was an Ensign in the U.S. Naval Aviation Service during the World War, and shows the author standing on the pontoon of a huge bombing plane." Contact - Careers of the US Naval Aviators states that he was accepted for the Lafayette Escadrille but instead enrolled in the US Naval Air Station at Key West Florida. He was discharged as an Ensign in July 1921 and went on to be a commercial writer. The well-illustrated dust jacket shows "Andy Lane refuels his non-stop ship from the air" Item #2
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