Monday, November 2, 2015

Review: Fighter Squadron at Guadalcanal

Fighter Squadron at Guadalcanal Fighter Squadron at Guadalcanal by Max Brand
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Introductions make a big deal of the racism in this text begun in 1943 and published near 40 years after the author's death. I counted many "Japs" and one "Nip", hardly extreme considering the blatant racism o WWII. This is 1st-person narratives of survivors of 212 stationed at Guadacanal and valiantly stopping the "Japs" from retaking Henderson field. Stories of a pilot's first kill in a dog fight stand out, as well as interacting with natives in tracking down a survivor and a pilot who rammed into a Zero later finding the pilot bobbing in the sea. Stern stuff.

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