The Day I Owned The Shy (Stated First Edition/Stated First Print/Stated BOMC - F/VF with G/VG DJ)

by Robert Lee Scott, Jr; USAF Brigadier General, retired (1908-2006) [*Author of: God Is My Co-pilot]

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Bantam, New York NY (1988) HC w/ DJ, Stated First Edition/Stated First Print/Stated BOMC (Copyright page number series reads: 1-10, further states: March 1988, further states: BOMC/BOMR), 8vo, 238 pages including Index and 25 b&w plates via private collections and public archives; Book: F/VF, clean, tight and sound, near as new, appears a once read or an unread, nothing derogatory of note, sky-blue boards with blue cloth spine and spine-turns, bright silver lettering to spine; Pages: F/VF, clean, white and secure, original owner's name applied to top edges with rubber stamp, elsewise nothing derogatory of note; DJ: F/VF, clean and bright, mild tip bump all four, mild to moderate edge wear top and bottom spine, one tear back top approximate 1/2", not clipped, no price showing on front inner flap (a book club ed./not a remainder/not a Library ed.) Synopsis: Robert Lee Scott, Jr; USAF Brigadier General, retired, the charismatic author of the blockbuster bestseller, God Is My Co-pilot, which has continuously been in pint since 1947 and an inspiration to generations of flyers and others --- writes a firecracker of an autobiography, a story alive with humor, excitement, drama, courageousness and the brash honesty that made General Scott a maverick for all of his life. In a richly generous account of his life and career, he writes of his family's patient forbearance with their son's determination to become a flyer --- and his last-ditch battle to get into the fledgling US Army Air Corp. How he set himself to pursue -- and win -- his beloved wife, Kitty Rix Scott. He relates vividly his first days in the Air Corp, seizing every opportunity to fly, taking on every extra duty possible. By the time WWII broke out, he had amassed an astounding amount of air time, and was able to talk himself into the Pacific Bomber Command, even though he'd never actually flown a bomber until then! But General Scott was first, last, and always a fighter pilot --- and he proved it from the first day he was in the combat zone of the Burma-China Theater. With the famed Flying Tigers he earned the reputation of being a one-man air force, recording 25 confirmed kills by the time he left the theater of battle. From skies over the battlefields to the pentagon, General Scott has been a fighter, the supreme advocate of making sure the men on the front lines get adequate weaponry, a bulldog in securing the goods for the fighting man. He is a man whose life was a constant adventure, as in his motorcycle trek across the whole of Europe and half of Asia, following in Marco Polo's steps; or when he walked the entire length of the Great Wall of China at age 72! He was always a man who lived his dreams, and spoke his mind, reveling in the challenge of living. Told with vitality and driving energy, is an inspirational story of victory over challenges and love of life you will not want to miss!