Item #2633 Go, Get'Em! The True Adventure of an American Aviator of the Lafayette Flying Corps who was the Only Yankee Flyer Fighting over General Pershing's Boys of the Rainbow Division in Lorraine when they First Went Over the Top. Maréchal des Logis William A. WELLMAN.

Go, Get'Em! The True Adventure of an American Aviator of the Lafayette Flying Corps who was the Only Yankee Flyer Fighting over General Pershing's Boys of the Rainbow Division in Lorraine when they First Went Over the Top

Boston: The Page Company, 1918. Octavo, original decorated green cloth, xiv, 284 pp., frontispiece, 15 plates; with an additional four pages of publisher's advertising at the end (unpaginated). Cloth a little rubbed at extremities, otherwise near-fine. With Foreword and Notes by Eliot Harlow Robinson.

Go, Get'Em! is a first-hand account of the author's wartime experiences of aerial combats over the Western Front.

William A. Wellman initially enlisted as an ambulance driver at the beginning of World War One. Soon, he was transferred to the French Foreign Legion. Later, he joined the Lafayette Flying Corps Escadrille No. 87 in late 1917 after earning his wings as a fighter pilot. He flew Nieuport pursuit aircraft. Wellman cumulated three kills as a fighter pilot. In March 1918, he was shot down by a German anti-aircraft but was awarded the Croix de Guerre with two palms. Though he survived the crash, he was invalidated out of French service and was sent back to the United States where he became a Hollywood film director. Item #2633

Price (AUD): $400.00