Signed WWII 71st Fighter Squadron P-38 Ace Pilot "DOORKNOB FIVE TWO" Vet

Description: S.F. Maxwell published this tenth printing of the first edition of DOORKNOB FIVE TWO by Frederic Arnold, and the author inscribed it on an endpaper with a cartoon of "The Nose". The volume measures about 6.5" x 8.5" and consumes 274 pages, not including a terrific little section of B&W photo illustrations. The endpapers are mapped and the book is collectible. Condition:Sound book in near fine condition. Text clean and unmarked save author's inscription. Dustjacket good+ with light shelfwear. While the selling history does not show much feedback yet, please know that I have sold thousands of items through e-Bay with 100% positive feedback. I've started this new venue strictly for bookkeeping purposes since the goods listed here belong to a relative and not myself. If you'd like to view my personal active site, please search for Goldzinger. From 5280 Denver's Mile High Magazine by Kasey Cordell Honor Roll: A Chat With WWII Fighter Pilot Fredric ArnoldIn this installment of our conversation series with veterans, we sit down with Fredric Arnold, an artist and former WWII fighter pilot who lost all but one of the group of pilots with whom he graduated from flight school. His sculpture honoring them will go on display later this year at the National World War II Museum. Twenty-year-old Fredric Arnold was already a talented and established artist when he enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1942. Trained as a child at the Art Institute of Chicago, Arnold worked for Hearst newspapers in Chicago and a New York studio as a cartoonist and photo retoucher. But Pearl Harbor changed everything. Arnold became a P-38 fighter pilot. Stationed in North Africa with the 71st Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, Arnold was one of the first American fighter pilots to survive 50 missions (and two crash landings), including the invasion of Sicily. He was eventually awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his actions in the Mediterranean. Sadly, only one other member of Arnold’s graduating class of pilots lived through combat. Arnold completed his military service in the Office of Flying Safety as a writer and illustrator who created educational materials for pilots. He later wrote an autobiographical novel—Doorknob Five Two, Arnold’s call sign—about his time in the Air Corps. But always, he was an artist.As the years passed, Arnold wanted to honor the 12 men from his graduating class who did not survive. He did so first with a mural painted on maps from his missions that his crew chief had given him as a gift when he left the squadron. A scene from that mural became the inspiration for Lest We Forget: The Mission, a 12-figure bronze sculpture that honors not only Arnold’s lost comrades, but also the other 88,000 airman killed in World War II. Now 93 and living in Longmont, Arnold worked with Loveland sculptor Sutton Betti to transform his miniature sculpture into the life-sized version that is in the final stages of completion and later this year will become a fixture at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. This is Arnold’s story.

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