The man who would not die: the remarkable story of 'Lucky' Herschel McKee ; barnstormer, war hero, test pilot, motor racer, scoundrel
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Sparkford, UK
Haynes Publ.
2008
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| Beschreibung: | Includes index. |
| Beschreibung: | 304 S., [8] Bl. Ill. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781844255108 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Author s preface
6
Prologue
9
PART I
-
WORLD WAR ONE
11
1
Downed Over Germany
12
2
A Daredevil Is Born
14
3
Leaving Home
19
4
The Lafayette Flying Corps
25
5
Incarceration
37
PART
Π
-
THE SPEEDWAY YEARS
43
6
A Lifestyle Emerges
44
7
Marriage
53
8
Board Track Racing and a Love Lost
61
9
Success at Long Last
76
10
The Good Life
80
1
1 Death Too Close to Home
88
12
Charmed
94
13
The Luck Runs Out
107
14
Will He Ever Learn?
118
15
Tong
Wars and the Parachute Plane
121
16
Death Drivers and Marriage
#2 137
17
A Real Job
149
18
Viola, a Mistake, and Marriage
#3 153
PART
ΠΙ
-
WORLD WAR TWO
167
19
The Annulment
. 168
20
War Looms; McKee Waits
178
21
Off to War Again
184
22
Welcome to the 44th
190
23
Adversity Forges a Strange Relationship
199
24
Life at Shipdham
211
25
Discovering Scottish Roots and Off to Africa
220
26
Operation Tidal Wave
232
27
Lucky
242
28
Bombs Over Normandy and Marriage
#4 247
29
The War Ends
257
PART IV-AFTER THE WAR
261
30
Does the Child Ever Leave the Man?
262
31
Undercover in Miami
266
32
The Failed Invasion
278
33
Reality at Home and Return to Miami
281
34
Good Thing in a Small Package
287
35
Journey s End
289
36
God Speed
294
Postscript
298
Index
299
Epitaph
304
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