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Just finished Enterprise by Barrett Tillman which I heartily recommend if you are into aircraft carriers.

Currently reading Hell's Angels by Jay Stout

What are you reading?

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Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

"Flight" by Chris Kraft. Just finished "Everything But the Flak" by Martin Caidin...

For a chilling, real life read, try “Adak, The Rescue of Alpha Foxtrot 586”.

China Pilot by Felix Smith. Not bad at all.

I have several underway at the same time:

1) ‘Twelve to One’ V Fighter Command Aces of the Pacific

Combat hints written by many aces of the SWPA. The letters detail the tactics which proved to be successful.

2) Check Six!: A Thunderbolt Pilot's War Across the Pacific
by Jim Curran and Terrence Popravak

Until I started reading those books I was unaware of how much the Thunderbolt was used in the Pacific.

3) Cover of Darkness: The Memoir of a World War Two Night-Fighter
by Roderick Chisholm |

I recently read "Code Talker," by Chester Nez, which covers the experience of a Navajo code talker for the Marines during WWII. It's a well-known book and movie, but if you haven't read it yet it is definitely worthwhile.

I also recently read "Grasshopper Pilot" by Julian William Cummings, which is a first-hand account of the experiences of an L-4 pilot during WWII. It isn't quite as detailed as a lot of pilot's accounts I have read but it was still interesting and there were some great stories in it.

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Just finished Last Mission to Tokyo, by Michel Paradis. It chronicles the aftermath of the Doolittle mission and the two captured crews who were tried and tortured at the hands of the Japanese and the execution of three of them. It covers the rescue of the survivors in the last weeks of World War II and the international manhunt and trial led by two dynamic and opposing young lawyers—in which both the United States and Japan accused the other of war crimes.

Far more of a courtroom drama than a flying novel with a few easily forgiven aviation technical errors.

Free to the first person who PM’s me their mailing address and promises to donate $10 to WIX and further promises to “Pay It Forward” by doing the same with one of their own warbird related books when they’re through. Let’s see if perhaps we can create a WIXer book exchange that benefits both us and the website/Scott.

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I'd love to run across a copy and read that again. IIRC, it was hilarious!

Over the last year of lockdown and new retirement, I've re-read pretty much every av-book in the house, some of them for the third and fourth time. Only fresh av thing I have to read is the new Air Classics mag. Right now I'm reading the Sue Grafton mystery N is for Noose.

Been watching a LOT of Netflix and HBO MAX, too, but that's a different question.

Snake: Spend the $10 a month and get Kindle Unlimited...It's cut my reading budget expense by about 95% in the last 26 months or so....

George Marshall - Defender of the Republic by David L. Roll.

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Going "Old School" here. Night Fighter by CF Rawnsley, read it as a kid. Also got the new P-51B North American's Bastard Stepchild that saved the 8th Air Force. The story was NOT that they drew up some sketches on a napkin to show the British and 120 days later a new airplane rolled out.

The last aviation-related audio book I listened to was last month: Race to Hawaii by Jason Ryan.

It's mostly about the 1927 Dole Derby air race to fly from the mainland to Hawaii, but he covers a lot of general information about aviation in the 20s. I knew nothing about the difficulty they had flying this route, and it had me on the edge of seat.

If you're already an Audible subscriber the book is free to you as part of their library.

Group Captain Peter Townsend's "Duel of Eagles", about the Battle of Britain. An old paperback that fell apart as I read it. Very well told, by a participant who did plenty of research in the 1960s... since my copy is now destroyed, I think it's worth buying a copy that's actually in good condition.

Eagle Station by Mark Berent

4th of a 5 book series of the Air Force in VietNam.

Rolling Thunder
Steel Tiger
Phantom Leader
Eagle Station
Storm Flight