The Baby Faced Ace
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About the Book
Tommy Cannon, a seventeen year old youth with the face of a very young boy volunteers for service with the Army Air Corps in WWII. His father has already trained him as a pilot and he enters service as a skilled aviator. Throughout his military training, he endures the Baby face tag but in the fierce aerial combat over Europe becomes known as the Baby Faced Ace. He finds great love in England and strives to survive the war and take his great love home with him.
About the Author
Frank Hibbs was born and raised in Sevier County in southwestern Arkansas, the son of a lumberjack. Drafted in 1944 he served with the Army in WWII as an infantryman with 3rd Army in the ETO. Reenlisting he became a B-29 Flight Engineer in the Air Force and few 21 combat missions in the Korean War. He ended his 21-year service in the military with the Strategic Air Command flying b-36's and C-124's. Married with two children he worked thirty years as an electronic technician in industry and retired in 1992. After retirement he began painting and writing all types of fiction.