Thomas’s Reviews > Spitfires, Thunderbolts, and Warm Beer: An American Fighter Pilot Over Europe > Status Update
Thomas
is 90% done
350 mins
Gover, the pilot, is now a lieutenant colonel, and has flown 160 combat missions for 306 hours. He transferred to the USAAF in March, 1942. Since the last time I posted, his squadron changed plane types 3 time and has shot down more enemy planes than any other squadron in Europe. This book has been hard to put down.
— Jan 27, 2015 11:28AM
Gover, the pilot, is now a lieutenant colonel, and has flown 160 combat missions for 306 hours. He transferred to the USAAF in March, 1942. Since the last time I posted, his squadron changed plane types 3 time and has shot down more enemy planes than any other squadron in Europe. This book has been hard to put down.
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Thomas
is finished
105 minutes
Towards the end of the book, There is less combat for Gover. He wanted to get back home to California by Christmas, but he was delayed until Febuary. By the time he got home he found out that he was a hometown hero, and that the paper wrote about him every week. After a month of leave he was scheduled to go back to Britain, but was posted at a training base to teach new pilots.
— Feb 02, 2015 03:44PM
Towards the end of the book, There is less combat for Gover. He wanted to get back home to California by Christmas, but he was delayed until Febuary. By the time he got home he found out that he was a hometown hero, and that the paper wrote about him every week. After a month of leave he was scheduled to go back to Britain, but was posted at a training base to teach new pilots.
Thomas
is 17% done
105 min
I am enjoying this book. It is about a pilot who flew acrobatic airplanes before the war and then joined a Royal Air Force squadron just after the Battle of Britain. The interesting thing is that he joined it through their recruiting service in America, and then traveled overseas for advanced training in Spitfires. Currently he is getting his qualifying hours on that plane.
— Jan 12, 2015 09:20AM
I am enjoying this book. It is about a pilot who flew acrobatic airplanes before the war and then joined a Royal Air Force squadron just after the Battle of Britain. The interesting thing is that he joined it through their recruiting service in America, and then traveled overseas for advanced training in Spitfires. Currently he is getting his qualifying hours on that plane.
