The Eagle Above: Chronicles of an American Fighter Pilot

The Eagle Above: Chronicles of an American Fighter Pilot is the true story of Colonel Stanley E. Corvin Sr. At the age of nineteen he went to Canada in mid-1941 and enlisted in the RCAF to train as a fighter pilot. In England he was an RAF flight officer in the 121st Eagle Squadron which was made up of Americans. Flying Supermarine Spitfires and Hawker Hurricanes Corvin flew fighter sweeps and escorted bombers into Germany. Transferred to the USAAF then-Captain Corvin flew P-51Ds in North Africa Sicily and from Iwo Jima on VLR missions into Japan. Sent to South Korea in 1950 he flew F-86 Sabers against North Korean Russian and Chinese pilots. In 1954 at Tsuiki AFB Japan he was an instructor pilot teaching former WWII Japanese pilots to fly jet aircraft. One student was Maj. Gen. Minoru Genda who helped plan and carry out the attack on Pearl Harbor. Colonel Corvins remarkable career included becoming a test pilot at Edwards AFB and flying the first F-4 Phantom IIs in West Germany.