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Frank Glasgow Tinker
US Naval Academy graduation photo, 1933
Born
July 14, 1909 (1909-07-14) Kaplan, Louisiana
Died
June 13, 1939(1939-06-13) (aged 29) Little Rock, Arkansas
Allegiance
United States Republicans
Service/branch
United States Navy Republican Air Force
Battles/wars
Spanish Civil War
Alma mater
United States Naval Academy (BS)
Frank Glasgow Tinker (July 14, 1909 – June 13, 1939) was an American volunteer fighter pilot for the Fuerzas Aéreas de la República Española ("Air Forces of the Spanish Republic"; FARE), during the Spanish Civil War.
Tinker was credited officially with shooting down eight enemy aircraft and was the highest-scoring American air ace of the war.[1] However, Tinker's logbook suggests that he claimed 19 victories, which would make him the sixth-highest scoring pilot in FARE. That relatively few of his claims were officially recognized was due to the complex system of verifying air kills used by FARE and the financial incentive paid to mercenaries: many victories were not verifiable because the downed aircraft crashed in an enemy-held area and/or an incentive would not have to be paid.[2] In addition, Tinker and other pilots from Escuadrilla La Calle ("La Calle's Squadron"), also known as 1ª Escuadrilla de Chatos (1st Chato Squadron"), shared a number of joint kills against Junkers Ju 52 bombers. He reported narrowly avoiding death at both the hands of enemy aviators and malfunctioning equipment.
He left a detailed record of his experiences as a fighter pilot for the Republicans in his memoir Some Still Live, published by Funk & Wagnalls Co in New York, 1938[3] and recently republished by The Clapton Press, London.[4]
^Frank Glasgow Tinker Jr (1938). Some Still Live. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. ISBN 978-0809496334. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
^Andrés García La Calle, Mitos y verdades: La aviación de caza en la guerra civil española.; México: Lito Offset fersa, 1973.
^Tinker, Frank Glasgow (1992). Some Still Live. Time-Life Books. ISBN 0-8094-9633-X.
^"Some Still Live, Frank G Tinker Jr, The Clapton Press, 2019". 9 June 2019.
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