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Terror of the Autumn Skies the True Story of Frank Luke, America's Rogue Ace of World War I

Frank Luke, Jr., was an unlikely pilot. In the Great War, when fliers were still ""knights of the air, "" Luke was an ungallant loner, a kid from Arizona who collected tarantulas, shot buzzards, and boxed miners. But during two torrid weeks in September 1918, he was the deadliest man on the Western Front. In only ten missions, he destroyed fourteen heavily-defended German balloons and four airplanes, a rampage unequaled even by the dreaded von Richtofen, and the second highest American tally of the entire war. Cocksure and constantly reprimanded, Luke was actually under arrest.

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