Mustang ace: the story of Don Gentile

Don Gentile was one of the deadliest men ever to pilot a fighter aircraft. During World War Two, his tally of thirty enemy aircraft destroyed made him the highest scoring American fighter pilot in the European Theatre, and earned him the title of 'Ace of Aces'. He volunteered to serve in the RAF's 'Eagle' Squadron - with many of his countrymen - long before the United States entered the war, and was the first to overtake Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's World War One score of twenty-six enemy planes destroyed. Despite his ferocity in the air, Don Gentile was a sensitive, shy, and devoutly religious young man who suffered deep anguish over the deaths of not only his friends and comrades but also the killing of the German Luftwaffe pilots he shot down.… (more)