Author: SHEELY IRVING EDWARD, EDITED BY LAWRENCE D. SHEELY
Title: Sailor of the Air the 1917-1919 Letters and Diary of Usn Cmm/a Irving Edward Sheely
Description: U.S.A. The University of Alabama Press. 1993, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0817307095) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 24 Cm. Heavy Book Over 500gms, In the winter of 1917 23 year old Irving Edward Sheely of Albany, New York enlisted in Naval Aviation and began his training at Pensacola Naval Air Station.When Congress declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917 the combined strength of aviation within the Navy and Marine Corps was 48 officers, 239 enlisted men, 54 airplanes, 1 airship and 1 air station. Utilizing Sheely's correspondence and meticulous diary spanning 19 months of training and service mostly on foreign soil and in foreign aircraft this book presents an unusual first person account of the wartime experience of naval aviation in World War 1. As New/As New.

Keywords: World War 1, Submarine, Irving Edward Sheely, Biography, Autobiography 0817307095


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