This auction is for a super piece of WWI history, an original photo collection book by an identified United States volunteer who became a noted armed forces aviator. The photos includes The Hat in the Ring insignia represented the 94th Aero Squadron of the United States Army Air Service (USAAS) during World War I. The airman who put this together later operated Fowler Brothers bookstore, the oldest of its kind in Los Angeles, Ca. He was an aviator as well as a writer and worked for a time after the war as sports editor of the Los Angeles Times.Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, also known as Eddie Ri... |