The First Team: Thornton D. Hooper and America's First Bombing Squadrons [signed] [first edition]

The story of the first American bombing squadrons is little known, but by no means inaccessible. It is a story of adaptation and innovation as the aviation element of the American Army attempted to overcome its extreme unpreparedness in 1917....Nothing like this has occurred in the US Army and its best plane was little more than a trainer. With no prior experience or even adequate information, the American Air Service had to construct a force from scratch.