[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce Aviation: Carl Squier (WWI Pilot & Lockheed co-founder) Inscribed to Eddie Rickenbacker

[Charles Agvent]

KENNEY, George C. (RICKENBACKER, Eddie). GENERAL KENNEY REPORTS. A 
PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE PACIFIC WAR. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pierce, 
(1949). First Edition. The war as seen by the commanding general of the 
Allied Air Forces in the Southwest Pacific. This copy INSCRIBED and 
SIGNED by one aviation pioneer to another on the half-title page: "To 
Capt. Eddie!/I am proud of/your friendship./One of God's 
greatest/Americans and/Aviation's Apostle!/Oct. 26 - 49/Carl Squier." 
Medal of Honor-winning World War I aviator Eddie Rickenbacker first 
gained fame in the formative years of auto racing as a driver. Before 
owning and operating the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, he participated in 
some of the first 500-mile races held there finishing in tenth place in 
1914. Rickenbacker flew a total of 300 combat hours, reportedly more 
than any other U.S. pilot in World War I, and his 26 victories as a 
pilot constituted an American record that stood until World War II. 
After the war, he started an unsuccessful automobile company, but his 
most lasting business endeavor was his lifelong leadership of Eastern 
Air Lines which Rickenbacker transformed from a small airline to a major 
international transportation company. Carl Squier--World War I pilot and 
barnstormer as well as co-founder and longtime Lockheed Company 
executive, was the 13th licensed pilot in the United States (there are 
now over 600,000). His wife was killed in a crash of a Lockheed Super 
Electra Model 14 in 1939, the same type of plane that Howard Hughes just 
a few months earlier flew around the world in a record time. Very Good, 
lacking the dustwrapper.                $350.00	

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