Doug
James grew up and was educated in Florence, Alabama. He attended Freed-Hardeman
University when it was a two-year college. He completed his bachelors'
degree at Florence State College (now the University of North Alabama),
where he majored in biology. He taught in the public schools of
north Alabama before attending Auburn University for a masters' degree
in speech communication. He taught at Auburn for four years prior to taking up residence in Mobile, Alabama,
to teach at Spring Hill College. While working on his doctorate at Walden University, James served as an assistant
principal and classroom teacher in Mobile public schools. Upon retiring in 1992, James returned to Spring Hill College as an adjunct professor
of communication arts, where he is currently employed. He also teaches classes
at the Mobile campus of Enterprise-Ozark Community College, an aviation school. James served on active
and reserve duty with the U.S. Navy as a FMF Corpsman, attached to the U.S.
Marines. His duty and training sites included the Naval hospital at Beaufort,
South Carolina (Parris Island), Camp Pendleton, California, Camp Lejeune, North
Carolina, Twenty-Nine Palms, California, Cherry Point, North Carolina, Roosevelt
Roads,
Puerto
Rico, and Mount Rangley, Maine.
Also by Doug James:
Walter Cronkite: His Life and Times
Gucci: A Puppy's Tale and other Pet Stories.
(Limited supplies of these titles available from Azalea Press)
Don't miss out on any of the excitement of Flights of Angels. For excerpts see: Stearman Airplane, The Stearman, and NAS Pensacola.
