'war is war, and if you are unlucky enough to become engaged in one, you better not lose it' (James Michener, 20 Oct 1995, explaining why he couldn't condemn the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
I started writing the Warbird's Blog because something of the sort was required of first-year students at King's College London in its online M.A. programme in War in the Modern World. Of course it proved to be addictive. So here I am, finished with my course work but still blogging. The photograph was taken at Hampton (NH) Airfield on my 76th birthday. I'm filling the fuselage tank of Zero Six Hotel, a 1946 Piper J-3 Cub which I'm about to fly to Plum Island Airport. (For more on this general subject, go here.) Blue skies! -- Dan Ford
Flying Tigers: Claire
Chennault and His American Volunteers:
"The exciting story of this legendary fighting force that wore American
uniforms but Chinese insignia.... Every page contains a new tidbit of
information and rich, long-forgotten detail." (WWII magazine)
Incident at Muc
Wa: The Vietnam novel that inspired the acclaimed Burt Lancaster
movie, Go Tell the Spartans
Michael's War:
Two rebels in the County Cork, 1916-1923
The Lady and the
Tigers: Olga Greenlaw's 1942 account of her year with the
Flying Tigers in Burma and China
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