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    Carrier Pilot
    Carrier Pilot
    Carrier Pilot
    Audiobook12 hours

    Carrier Pilot

    Written by Norman Hanson

    Narrated by Chris MacDonnell

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    In 1942 Norman Hanson learned to fly the Royal Navy's newest fighter: the U.S.-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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 20, 2017
    ISBN9781541473515
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    • 5/5
      A well written well spoken account of the lives of what we call in the U.S. , the Greatest Generation.
    • 4/5
      Gritty, vivid portrayal of life on a British carrier during WW2. Training was as dangerous as combat. And, taming the Grumman Corsair was fraught with opportunities to be badly injured or killed. British ships were rarely as well equipt as those of the US Navy.so life at sea was quite ugly.