An Ace and His Angel

This story was written by Herbert Brooks Hatch Jr. one of America's living Fighter Pilot Aces from World War II. Hatch flew a P-38 with the 71st Fighter Squadron 1st Fighter Group out of Salsola Italy. Except for a brief deployment to Corsice to cover the invasion of Southern France he flew his 59 missions out of Foggia #3. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with 11 Oak Leaf Clusters. In his first book An Ace and His Angel: Memoirs of a WWII Fighter Pilot Hatch writes of the heroes and hardships endured by veterans of the Army Air Force.