Bert Hall
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Bert Hall (1885-1948) was a film director, actor, writer and military aviator. Hall was one of America's first combat aviators, who flew with the famed Lafayette Escadrille in France, before the U.S. entered the First World War. He has been given the honorable title "Soldier of Fortune"[1] due to his distinguished career. Perhaps this title also reflects that a leave of absence from fighting may have contributed to saving his life. Survival of these combat aviators was extremely low, since many of them were shot down after only a few weeks. Hall was known to be boastful[2], but he put his words into action through writing and movie making:
Bert Hall gave live presentations, for his 1919 Romance of the Air movie, in the theaters.[3]
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Hall wrote books about being a "Flyboy" in the Lafayette Escadrille[4]:
- Hall, Bert. (1918) En L'air, New York: The New Library, Inc. ASIN: B000M1DSJM
- Hall, Bert. (1929) One Man's War: The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille, London: J. Hamilton. ASIN: B00087AA7I
A few movies have been made about Bert Hall and his fellow combat aviators, including the 1958 Lafayette Escadrille film, with Tab Hunter, and the 2006 film Flyboys.
