Writer, researcher, SABR member — sports, aviation, and military history. Current book: Battlefields: The Chicago White Sox and the Great War (Bloomsbury Academic). Previously: Big Loosh (University of Nebraska Press).
Jim Leeke
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Today in 1944 - Sergeant George Laws films the landing on Sword Beach, and British and French troops fight their way inland supported by amphibious Sherman DD tanks of the 13/18th Hussars, and prisoners are taken. #DDay #filmcataloguing
Film: A70 31-3 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
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P-6E Hawk: the last biplane fighter built in quantity for the US Army Air Corps, never used in combat. Love the “spats” over the tires. National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, Dayton OH, 2024. — #avgeeks
Frank Hawks’ plane Texaco 13, at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, by my pal Jane Willson this weekend. — #avgeeks
"That's All, Brother," lead C-47 on D-Day, 82 years ago today. (National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, 2022) — #avgeeks
A fanciful depiction of Frank Hawks' speed plane Time Flies in an ad for Gruen watches, 1936. Gruen sponsored the ship, which had only one seat and a canopy flush with the fuselage. I'm near completion of Frank's bio now. — #avgeeks
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Well above draft age, American sportswriter Grantland Rice enlisted in the army and served as a lieutenant in France during WWI. I've collected dozens of poems he wrote about the war in a free pdf. DM me if interested. (US National Archives photo) — #ffw #ww1 #poetry
An image from my book, Battlefields: The Chicago White Sox and the Great War. After a federal "work or fight" rule ended the 1918 major league season early, catcher Ray Schalk toiled in a Windy City foundry. (Chicago Tribune photo)
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As Trump's popularity hits epic lows, his MAGA movement gets more openly racist and hostile to democracy.
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A new review of LADY DAREDEVILS: AMERICAN WOMEN & EARLY AVIATION by Barbara Ganson out from @ala-booklist.bsky.social!
