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Sailor of the Air : The 1917-1919 Letters and Diary of USN CMM/A Irving Edward Sheely
Published by The University of Alabama Press, 1993. ISBN 0817307095., 1993
Hard cover in protected dust wrapper, xii/221pp, b&w photos. A little wear to edges;a very good copy. Winter 1917 - twenty-three-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 6 April 1917 Lieutenant Kenneth Whiting immediately recruited seven volunteer officers and 122 volunteer enlisted men to go directly to France as the First Aeronautical Detachment. By June, the first organised contingent of American forces arrived in the combat zone at St. Nazaire, France - woefully unprepared to take on the mighty submarine force of Imperial Germany. Among this small detachment was. Sheely.Trained by American and foreign officers, using both American and foreign aircraft, Sheely learned aviation and aviation combat at the heart of the action. He served as Observer/Gunlayer with Navy Lieutenant Kenneth MacLeish as pilot, and the two participated in some of the first antisubmarine air patrols in history, including a sea landing to rescue a downed crew. While at Clermont-Ferrand, Sheely developed an improved bombsight. Following the Armistice, Sheely participated in the closing of the Navy base at Eastleigh, England, and returned to the United States in November 1918. Utilising Sheely's correspondence and diary spanning 19 months of training and service this book presents a first person account of the wartime experience of naval aviation in World War I.
