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Name: Frank Luke, balloon buster
Author: Charles Ira Coombs

📘 Frank Luke, balloon buster by Charles Ira Coombs

A fictional life of a famous American flying ace of the First World War who spent only two weeks in combat but shot down more than twenty enemy balloons and planes.

First publish date: 1967

Subjects: Fiction, World War, 1914-1918, Juvenile fiction, Aerial operations

Authors: Charles Ira Coombs

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