Flying with Iron Angels: The diaries and memories of Navy carrier pilots fighting the Pacific war in 1944

by Charles Houston, Stephen Gray Justice (Illustrator)

There are books and then there are labors of love. Charles Houston's FLYING WITH IRON ANGELS falls in the latter category. Houston flew Grumman Hellcats with VF-14, part of Air Group 14, and his book is an absolutely first-rate history of this crack unit. Self-published in 2001, FLYING WITH IRON ANGELS is a wonderfully-researched, marvelously-illustrated account of Navy aviators at war.

480 pages, Hardcover

First published December 7, 2001

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[Bookworm · Rating 5 out of 5]

Palau (small island near The Philippines)
Diary entries
Foods they liked or didn’t like, pranks among the crew, hopes and fears, and (temporarily) stealing their captain’s hat!
People have always been people.