
Carrier Pilot
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Narrated by:
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Chris MacDonnell
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By:
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Norman Hanson
About this listen
In 1942, Norman Hanson learned to fly the Royal Navy's newest fighter: the US-built Chance Vought Corsair. Fast, rugged, and demanding to fly, it was an intimidating machine. But in the hands of its young Fleet Air Arm pilots, it also proved to be a lethal weapon.
Posted to the South Pacific aboard HMS Illustrious, Hanson and his squadron took the fight to the Japanese. Facing a desperate and determined enemy, Kamikaze attacks, and the ever-present dangers of flying off a pitching carrier deck, death was never far away.
Brought to life in vivid, visceral detail, Carrier Pilot is one of the finest aviators' memoirs of the war; an awe-inspiring, thrilling, sometimes terrifying, account of war in the air.
©2016 Norman Hanson (P)2017 TantorOne of the best of the genre
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Fantastically well written
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Flying from Carriers... a dangerous business.
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A new perspective on a rarely mentioned group of men
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Fantastic, tragic, brave and, in parts, humorous
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Royal Navy CarrierNaval Aviation, Indian, Pacific
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Well narrated tragic yet very humourous at the same time.
A very enlightening book on the Fleet Air Arm
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One man's war
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A great adventure from a different era
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Storyteller fantastic great
One of the best Second World War books ever
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