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Thoroughly entertaining. -- Booklist
Jim Morehead enlisted in August 1940. In February 1942 he earned the first of two Distinguished Service Crosses. Here he describes the wartime service of flying the P-40 Warhawk single engine monoplane against the Japanese Zero. Despite the odds against them, these brave aviators showed the enemy what good old-fashioned guts and gunnery meant in aerial combat. Morehead is a born storyteller and relates the reality -- from painful to hilarious -- of life in wartime military service. *Includes photographs
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Few Americans have heard of retired air force colonel Morehead. He is, nevertheless, among the legions of quiet heroes who served with distinction in WWII. How he progressed from a Depression-era farmboy to a Pacific theater ace who downed eight enemy aircraft forms the subject of this engrossing memoir. Absent overt braggadocio, the book instead concentrates on the overall scope of life in a wartime military, where the author just happens to perform acts of great skill and heroism. During one confusing battle against the vaunted Japanese Zeros, for instance, Morehead's aircraft stalls out shortly after his windshield is covered with oil from another disabled aircraft. Blinded, Morehead somehow evades a direct attack and restarts his plane to continue the battle. Elsewhere, the former country boy methodically stalks and destroys a marauding Zero. A good storyteller, Morehead injects his narrative with other eye-popping anecdotes. While stationed in Australia, one of his squadron mates embarks on a mission while carrying an undetected passengera poisonous snake that bites the pilot, with harrowing results. Replete with such episodes, this book should do much to further the mystique of heroic WWII aviators. Two maps, 20 pages of b&w photos not seen by PW. (Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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Retired air force colonel Morehead has written a plain, plainspoken, readable memoir of his World War II combat flying. Its centerpiece is his killing of seven Japanese in early 1942, the hardscrabble days of the Pacific war, when the Japanese appeared invincible and the P-40 was definitely outclassed by the Zero. He went on to fly combat in Europe in P-38s and to have a long, productive civilian career after the war. Morehead is not a polished writer, but he has an eye and an ear for detail that let him construct vivid scenes, not all of them involving flying, and memorable, sometimes scathing portraits of friends and enemies. Perhaps his book is not indispensable to most aviation or World War II collections, but, thoroughly entertaining, it will fit well into just about any of them as one of a seeming handful of tributes to that unglamorous workhorse among American fighter planes, the P-40. (Reviewed December 15, 1997)089141634XRoland Green
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Preface | p. vii |
Acknowledgments | p. ix |
I Family Moorings | p. 1 |
II The World of Flight | p. 18 |
III Big Change of Plans | p. 39 |
IV Bloody Java | p. 59 |
V Lick Your Wounds and Try Again | p. 84 |
VI Execution Date Has Arrived | p. 96 |
VII Could the Tide Be Turning? | p. 122 |
VIII A New Menu | p. 132 |
Ix His Life in My Hands | p. 158 |
X The End of All Wars, Says Who? | p. 183 |
Epilogue | p. 199 |