American Eagles, Volume 1: American Volunteer Fighter Pilots in the RAF, 1937-43

American Eagles, Volume 1: American Volunteer Fighter Pilots in the RAF, 1937-43 by Holmes, Tony. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781903223161.

First in a series of books dealing with American fighter pilots and their aircraft in the ETO focuses on those individuals who volunteered for action in war-torn Europe with the RAF prior to the US declaration of war. Here are accounts of Fighter Command at the outbreak of the Second World War; the Phoney War; Americans in the Battle of Britain; formation of Eagle Squadrons and Star-Spangled Spitfires.