The Lady And Her Eagle

About the Book

The cold war began in the early years after World War Two. Established in 1947, the United States Air Force became a separate arm of the military and the transition from propeller driven aircraft to jets is the focal point of the story. Tommy Chandler and his English wife, Lady Caroline, are involved with these developments. When the Korean war breaks out, Tommy is ordered to take a squadron of the new jet fighter, the F-86 Sabre, to fight in that war. His one hundred mission are fraught with danger and success as he becomes a jet ace. The first of this kind.

About the Author

A native Of Indiana, Jack Gatton was born in 1928 in a small rural town in the southern part of the state. In his twentieth year he enlisted in the United State Air Force and was trained as a meteorologist. He served four years on active duty in weather stations in the US, the Caribbean and ultimately in the Western Pacific and Korea during that war. After an honorable discharged he settled in Kansas City where he attended the Kansas City Art Institute before embarking on a career as a graphic designer, illustrator and art director in ad agencies there and California. An avid interest in aviation led the author to earn a pilots license and enjoyed many hours aloft over a span of thirty years. He made a career change later in life and has been writing fiction for several years producing five literary works. The subjects of these are eclectic; action adventure, fantasy/supernatural, murder and historic aviation.