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Frank Luke Jr. (May 19, 1897 – September 29, 1918) was an American fighter ace credited with 19 aerial victories, ranking him second among United States Army Air Service pilots after Captain Eddie Rickenbacker during World War I. Luke was the first airman to receive the Medal of Honor and first USAAS ace in a day. [1]
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Feb 19, 2024 · Lt. Frank Luke Jr.’s combat flying career was a brief, but remarkable, one. From August 16 to September 30, 1918, he was credited with downing 14 balloons and four aircraft. His 18 confirmed aerial victories were the most up to that point in the war, though he would later be passed by the legendary Captain Eddie Rickenbacker and his 26 victories.
May 12, 2024 · Frank Luke, namesake for the famous Luke Air Force Base in Arizona, in May 1919 posthumously was awarded the Medal of Honor for his 40 days spent as a fighter pilot on the Western Front of...
(SALEM) - A movie set to debut in October called The Flyboys casts these historic pilots in a Top Gun sort of way and reminds the world of one of my ongoing points; that the pilots fighting over France in WW1 were little more than kids, with the early 20’s being the average age. A few were older.
As a documentary producer, Salem-News.com's Tim King has followed the story of WW1 pilot Frank Luke across the world, literally. American WW1 ace 2nd Lt. Frank Luke Jr. (SALEM) - Frank Luke Jr.`s life was short; he was only 21 at the time of his death in 1918, shot down in a biplane over France in the last months of WW1.
2nd Lt Frank Luke Jr. Frank Luke, called the most spectacular air fighter of World War I, who shot town 18 airplanes and balloons in his short military career, enlisted in the Signal Corps Sept. 25, 1917.
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