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I liked it better when I was 12-14
By Ventura D
I first read this book when I was in junior high-school. Our school still had books dating back to the 1940's. At the time, I thought that the story was thrilling and mysterious. Out of a sense of nostalgia, I decided to re-read this book. Kessinger Publishing makes it possible to purchase rare or long otherwise out-of-print books. I have the paper-bound version, which has a secure binding and high-quality paper. The printing looks very clean, almost as if newly type-set. The down-side is that this is expensive for a paperback book of this type (over $20).
The story was apparently written with teen-age boys as its target audience, and the story works if the reader is not too critical. The first part establishes the protagonist Gil's knowledge of islands in the Pacific, and then follows his career in commercial aviation, and after Pearl Harbor, his activities as an aviator in the U. S. Navy. The first 60% of the story covers the period before he is deployed to the Pacific, and the remainder covers action in the Pacific Theater. If you are not too critical, the details seem OK. In January 1944 he is assigned to a carrier to be equipped by F4F's said to be "just approved by Navy test". In reality, of course, F6F's were in use at that time. We are told that Gil flew OS2's that had been duplicated as Nakajima KT95's. There is an OS2U, but no OS2 or KT95 as far as I can tell. In Chapter XXIII, Gil finds himself on the battleship U.S.S. Connecticut (which was decommissioned and scrapped in 1923).
The denouement relies on a succession of unlikely coincidences that might pass muster with a 12-year old but not with an adult. When I first read the book, I thought that it was wonderful and exotic. Now the story is a little disappointing. It is nevertheless interesting as a type of literature produced during the Second World War
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