By the way, if anyone's interested, a great war memoir is 'Flights Of Passage' by Samuel Hynes, a US Marine Avenger pilot who went on to become a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Literature at Princeton University. Its quite unlike anything I've ever read in the genre; almost bleakly unemotional and detached, and he was lambasted by womens groups in the United States for one particular episode in the book ( I won't go into details ). However, his description of watching a rocket powered Ohka descending through the grey murk over Ulithi Atoll towards the anchored US fleet below, and turning his Avenger in a vain attempt to intercept it, is one of the most vivid pieces of writing I've ever come across. Despite his indifference to the pleasure and wonder of flight, his final walk round the plane before returning to civilian life really is quite emotional. I can't recommend the book highly enough.
