An Arizona Aviator in France: The Life of Ernest A. Love, 147th Aero Squadron, USAS

The life of Ernest A. Love, 147th Aero Squadron, USASAlan Roesler, aviation historian, publisher, and author of An Arizona Aviator in France, leads off with "The Military Career of Ernest A. Love." Content of his presentation includes details from letters Love wrote home to family during his military life. In 1918 during the St. Mihiel Offensive Love was shot down and subsequently died in a German field hospital. In Roesler's extensive, four year research for this book he drew on documents available through Prescott's Sharlott Hall Museum and the Ernest A. Love American Legion Post # 6. "I was very pleased to be able to assist with the transfer of the 'Love' letters from the American Legion Post #6 archives to the Sharlott Hall Museum," Roesler reported as he further commented on the invaluable research he was able to do through each of these organizations. Personal interviews with family members and the Gorrell's History of the 147th Aero Squadron, which included the reports of every flight made during the war by Love and his colleagues, added depth and breadth to this intriguing story of the young aviator to whom Prescott's airport was dedicated in 1928.