Blue Angels With Dirty Faces by Ron Beeler, former Blue Angels Special Flight Crewman, puts into focus the roles and relationships between the pilots and crews of the world famous Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels.

 

Merely through a stroke of good fortune, Ron is likely the youngest member ever to be assigned to and accepted into the selective Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Team.  Once on the team, he meets famous World War II Aces and "old salts" of the straight-deck aircraft carrier who teach him that perfect maintenance is the only kind of maintenance tolerated within the U.S. Navy and the Blue Angels.  Beeler rejoined the team in 1963 for a second exciting tour of duty and the first European Tour by the Blue Angels.

 

Beeler's book is generously sprinkled with humor, excitement, and little known facts about the Blue Angels in their early days.  As an enlisted man, he tells stories of the Blues from a brand new perspective.  His characterizations of this elite group of aviators reveal a view of the Blues not seen before.

 

Blue Angels With Dirty Faces was released in conjunction with the Blue Angels' 60th Anniversary Celebration and Airshow in November 2006.