The Eagle Above: Chronicles of an American Fighter Pilot is the true story of Colonel Stanley E. Corvin, Sr. At the age of nineteen, he went to Canada in mid-1941 and enlisted in the RCAF to train as a fighter pilot. In England, he was an RAF flight officer in the 121st Eagle Squadron, which was made up of Americans. Flying Supermarine Spitfires and Hawker Hurricanes, Corvin flew fighter sweeps and escorted bombers into Germany. Transferred...