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In 1942, Norman Hanson learned to fly the Royal Navy's newest fighter: the US-built Chance Vought Corsair. Fast, rugged, and challenging to fly, it was an intimidating machine. But in the hands of its young Fleet Air Arm pilots, it also became a lethal tool. Posted to the South Pacific aboard HMS Illustrious, Hanson and his squadron required the fight to the Japanese. Facing a eager and determined enemy, Kamikaze episodes, and the ever-present potential issues of soaring off a pitching carrier deck, fatality was never a long way away. Taken to life in stunning, visceral depth, Carrier Pilot is one of the finest aviators' memoirs of the warfare; an awe-inspiring, thrilling, sometimes terrifying, accounts of warfare in the air.
