"G.R. Patterson III"
Maule Driver wrote:

But I can recommend a related book, James Bradley's "Flyboys" "A true
story of
courage".

I thought it was great except for two glaring errors. In one sentence he
talks
about the tendency of the big radials to "stall without warning" and in
another
he talks about the WWII carrier decks being very dangerous places with
whirling
props,..., jet fuel,... Jet fuel? In 1943?

Those errors make me wonder about some of the other facts he presents. The
book
does contain an excellent bibliography, however, so I don't think he's
made
anything up, and I hope to find time to check out some of his references.

You know, I think I'll do a fresh post about Flyboys in rap. I'm sick of
the subject line on this one and the presumed jerk behind it. Anyway,
please repost your point there if you like. That's why I'm always careful
about not presuming high levels of accuracy in something that just happens
to appear in hardback as non-fiction.