Len Deighton - "Goodbye Micky Mouse". A novel, unlike "Bomber" and "Fighter", which were "faction". Len Deighton did his national service in the RAF as a photographer. All his books are very well researched. This one is set in a USAAC P51 Mustang wing in East Anglia during WW2. The main difference between Len Deighton and most other aviation authors is that he can write.
PS. Who wrote "The High and the Mighty"? A good yarn about a DC6 en route Honolulu/San Francisco which shed a prop-blade somewhere near PNR and ruptured a fuel tank. It was touch-and-go whether it would make it. A period piece but the best "trucky" story I have read. It made a good film too.
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