Flights of Passage: Recollections of a World War II Aviator Paperback - 2003
by Hynes, Samuel
- Used
He was a wide-eyed teenager when he left his Minnesota home in 1943 to learn to fly. By the end of World War II, he was a battle-worn Marine bomber pilot who'd survived more than a hundred missions in the Pacific. With stunning eloquence and breathtaking clarity, Samuel Hynes recalls those extraordinary years
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- Title Flights of Passage: Recollections of a World War II Aviator
- Author Hynes, Samuel
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Condition UsedAcceptable
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
- Date 2003-02-04
- Bookseller's Inventory # 2Y6RUU0033TN_ns
- ISBN 9780142002902 / 0142002909
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 7.74 x 5.02 x 0.52 in (19.66 x 12.75 x 1.32 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1930's
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Library of Congress subjects United States, World War, 1939-1945
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003265439
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
"The War" is a seven-part, 14-hour documentary series that debuts on PBS on Sunday, September 23, 2007.
Sam Hynes was eighteen when he left his Minnesota home for navy flight school in 1943. By the time the war ended he was a veteran Marine pilot, still not quite twenty-one, and had flown more than a hundred missions in the Pacific theater. In this eloquent narrative, by turns dramatic, funny, and elegiac, Hynes recalls those extraordinary years during which he came of age. he makes real the places—the training fields and the liberty towns and the Pacific islands, and the people—the other young pilots, the girls and the young wives, even the enemy pilots. He remembers friendship, and the excitement and tedium of war, the high exhilaration of flying, and the dying. More than a tale of combat, Flight of Passage is a story of one boy's growth to manhood in the turbulent, testing world of war in the air.
