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While not a military title per say, Wings Across America: A Photographic History Of The U.S. Air Mail is a stunning account of early aviation history and surely will find many an interested reader among those who gravitate from military accounts to stories of U.S. air endeavors. Beautiful duotone vintage photos capture the spirit of early U.S. postal efforts, covering both the aircraft which served as mail carriers, their designs, and those who flew the mail. The blend of rare and vintage full-page photos and extensive detail on both planes and mail service makes for an exceptional coverage.
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WINGS ACROSS AMERICA captures the formative years of the U.S. Air Mail Service and includes photographs and exclusive interviews of the great air mail pilots by coauthor Jesse Davidson (deceased). Bruce McAllister has supplemented the historical photographs with new color photography, linking the present with the past. This coffee-table book includes the development of the coast-to-coast air mail service, as well as the first air-mail flights in Alaska and between Canada and the United States.BRUCE McALLISTER is a photographer and pilot who has logged more than 4,800 hours of flight time in the United States and Canada. His previous books, WINGS ABOVE THE ARCTIC and WINGS OVER THE ALASKA HIGHWAY (with Peter Corley-Smith, have received acclaim for their photography. Coauthor Jesse Davidson (1913-1983) was an aviation editor with a passion for collecting early air-mail photographs and interviewing the pioneer air-mail pilots.
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