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America's Aces in a Day

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Mr. Hess has done a nice job of researching and compiling the accounts of America's "one-day aces" of World War II. Plenty of first-hand combat accounts taken from both combat logs and pilot interviews make it informative, if somewhat difficult, reading. Over one hundred Army Air Force, Navy and Marine aces are featured, including Chuck Yeager, Leonard "Kit" Carson and Gregory "Pappy" Boyington. I all, the book gives a good impression of what it takes to win at aerial combat; being in the right place at the right time, and possessing the skills and level-headedness required to bring down an adversary. Many of the accounts are accompanied by black and white photographs of the pilots and their aircraft.

Take the combat logs from squadrons then all fo a sudden you've got a book to publish. This is the scheme Hess uses over and over again. The result in this one was, once again, another bureoucratic book, without life, without passion.

Another misfire by Hess, who only know to take the combt reports from the Fighter Grouops war diaries and then publish them. There[s no insight, no human side to the history. Sad.

Hess writes in a gruesome manner, totally "cold", only copying the combat records from the fighter Squadrons. He gives us no inner feeling the pilots had, no funny comments or details, nothing!