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On The Wings of The Wind, By: Kyrie Kallas- Autographed copy
- Item Number
- 100
- Estimated Value
- 32 USD
- Sold
- 25 USD to ml1db2125
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
Memoirs of "the greatest generation”
A proud military aviator, Charles Kyrie Kallas is a decorated veteran of three wars – WWII, Korea and Vietnam - where he flew worldwide airlift missions during both peacetime and wartime. He retired from the United States Air Force in 1971 as a Lieutenant Colonel and Master Navigator. Whether he’s dropping paratroopers over the Rhine River during WWII, opening a liquor store in Brooklyn, or returning to his ancestral home in Greece, what differentiates On the Wings of the Wind from other memoirs of "the greatest generation” is the way Lieutenant Colonel Charles Kyrie Kallas animates the breadth of his experience. There’s adrenaline in his storytelling, a rare kind of candor, and audacity in his language that puts us right with him as a flight navigator perched between the pilot and co-pilot on a C47 crossing the Atlantic Ocean. At 95 years old, he is the narrator – and Master Navigator – of not only his own story as a Greek immigrant coming of age in the United States Air Force, but also, inadvertently, the history of 20th century America. On the Wings of the Wind is for anyone, young or old, seeking to understand how others found their way, in combat and in everyday life, before technology took over.
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