Limited Signed and Numbered First Edition of 650 books

5.5" x 8" Softback

224 pages includes 32 pages of photos

S Sgt. James Stegall arrived in North Africa in 1943 with the 878th Heavy Maintenance Company. He decided that he'd rather to be in a combat outfit and by luck and hard work managed to enroll and pass flight school. He proudly became a "Grasshopper Pilot", flying an L-4 (Piper Cub) as an artillery observer for the 36th Division. His first combat experience began on the beaches of Salerno, Italy and continued into the Liri Valley where an encounter with a German Me-109 won him his first Silver Star.

Lt. James R. Stegall was a Laision Pilot with the 49th Field Artillery Battalion, 7th Infantry Division when he landed at Pusan in September, 1950. A few days later he landed at Inchon and began his second combat tour.
He fought with the 7th Division from Inchon to Iwon and participated in the push to the Yalu River. He then retreated to Hamhung where he flew mission in and out of the Chosin Reservoir before crash landing near Koto-ri. He marched out with X Corp to Hungnam Harbor for the sea evacuation to Pusan. He continued flying for the 7th, fighting the Chinese and North Koreans back to the 38th Parallel. He earned the Silver Star with cluster, Distinguished Flying Cross with cluster, Air Medal with twenty five clusters, Army Commendation Ribbon, and a host of other service medals and appendages.

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