ost (Chris Mark) wrote:
From: "PosterBoy" brauck@bigfoo

You would be interested in "The Thousand-Mile War" (World War Two in
Alaska and the Aleutians") by Brian Garfield.
There are a number of these 'weather' stories. In fact, the weather in the
area impacted on most of the true tales in this remarkable book.

The library had it. Read it at one sitting. *Great* read! Thanks for the
recommendation, and I will add my "second" to it.

An excerpt from one of my faves: "Stranger to the Ground" by Richard
Bach:

***

The storm is a wild horse of the desert that has suddenly discovered
a monster on its back. It is in a frenzy to rid itself of me, and it
strikes with shocks so fast they cannot be seen. I learn a new fact.
The ejection seat is not always an escape. Bailout into the storm will
be just as fatal as the meeting of earth and airplane, for in the
churning air my parachute would be a tangled nylon rag. My airplane
and I have been together for a long time, we will stay together now.
The decision bolts the ejection seat to the cockpit floor, the
Thunderstreak and I smash down through the jagged sky as a single
dying soul. My arm is heavy on the stick, and tired. It will be good
to rest. There is roaring in my ears, and I feel the hard ground
widening about me, falling up to me...

***

-Mike Marron