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It's a story about one particular B-17 mission but I heard the authors on a podcast this morning at it looks like it lays out the entire 1942 SW pacific situation and what a shoestring it was on. Amazon Link

I'd have thought they would only cover the SW Pac as a backdrop and have most of the book concerned with the crew and the story of the mission.
I'm already vaguely familiar with that mission but if the book is as detailed as the reviews suggest, I might put it on my Xmas list.

Not a satanist fan [;)]

History channel had a show covering this...or Smithsonian channel. There is a similar story about aggressive SBD pilots using their planes more like fighters.

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History channel had a show covering this...or Smithsonian channel. There is a similar story about aggressive SBD pilots using their planes more like fighters.

That's not far off about SBD's, IIRC they were kinda an emergency CAP anyway & many of the pilots flipped between the different squadrons.

Same author as Halsey’s Typhoon, which I didn't read but heard good things about. OK, ordered the book form the library. Should have it later in the week. 350 pages and a daily commute with 2 hours of train time. Should take a few days, no more.

John, I like the idea of you seated (standing sometimes?) in a train car for an hour reading an old-fashioned book, and one from the library at that. You must stand out in this modern world.

In the summer of 1981 - my last summer spent in my hometown of Miami - I had an office job downtown. I took the Metro (monorail) train into town each day. It was a 30-minute ride, or thereabouts. But I did the same thing you're doing - read books, seated or standing. That was unusual (but not unprecedented) even in that era.

Dogfights did a video on Old 666 for those looking for a visual.

Old 666

Long Odds

Old 666 is at the 20 minute mark, if you have time check out the earlier clip of Swede Vejtasa in his SBD.