- Bert Hall
Bert Hall (1885-1948) was a
film director , actor, writer and military aviator. Hall was one of America's first combat aviators, who flew with the famedLafayette Escadrille inFrance , before theU.S. enteredWorld War I . He has been given the honorable title "Soldier of Fortune" [ [http://www.aviationheritagepark.com/hall.html Aviation Heritage Park] ] due to his distinguished career. Perhaps this title also reflects that a leave of absence from fighting may have contributed to saving his life. Survival of these combat aviators was extremely low, since many of them were shot down after only a few weeks. Hall was known to be boastful, [ [http://www.acepilots.com/wwi/lafayette.html Lafayette Escadrille] ] but he put his words into action through writing and movie making:Bert Hall gave live presentations, for his 1919 Romance of the Air movie, in the theaters. [ [http://movies2.nytimes.com/mem/movies/review.html?_r=1&title1=Romance%20of%20the%20Air%2c%20A&title2=&reviewer=&pdate=19181111&v_id=&oref=slogin New York Times Romance of the Air Review] ]
Bibliography
Hall wrote books about being a "Flyboy" in the Lafayette Escadrille: [ [http://www.raindesert.com/great_war/books/hall_bert.htm THE GREAT WAR IN THE AIR BIBLIOGRAPHY PROJECT] ]
* Hall, Bert. (1918) "En L'air", New York: The New Library, Inc. ASIN: B000M1DSJM* Hall, Bert. (1929) "One Man's War: The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille", London: J. Hamilton. ASIN: B00087AA7I
A few movies have been made about Bert Hall and his fellow combat aviators, including the 1958 Lafayette Escadrille film, with
Tab Hunter , and the 2006 filmFlyboys .External links
* [http://www.aviationheritagepark.com/hall.html Several photos of Bert Hall and the other real "Flyboys"]
*imdb name|0355341|Bert Hall (I)References
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