Angels Twenty: A Young American Flier a Long Way from Home

Angels Twenty: A Young American Flier a Long Way from Home by Park, Edwards. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780075821250.

Edwards Park, WWII fighter pilot and one of the founders of Smithsonian magazine recounts his experiences as a young American flier in a backwater of the war--the jungles of New Guinea. Beaver Squadrons P-39s were badly outmatched by the Japanese Zeroes, but they held the line. Parks account, often humorous, often moving, is faithful to the spirit of his old comrades and the planes they loved.