Carrier Pilot: One of the Greatest Pilot's Memoirs of WWII - A True Aviation Classic

In 1942 Norman Hanson learnt to fly the Royal Navys newest fighter: the US-built Chance Vought Corsair. Fast rugged and demanding to fly it was an intimidating machine. But in the hands of its young Fleet Air Arm pilots it also proved to be a lethal weapon.Posted to the South Pacific aboard HMS Illustrious Hanson and his squadron took the fight to the Japanese. Facing a desparate and determined enemy Kamikaze attacks and the ever-present dangers of flying off a pitching carrier deck death was never far away.Brought to life in vivid visceral detail Carrier Pilot is one of the finest aviators memoirs of the war; an awe-inspiring thrilling sometimes terrifying account of war in the air.