Jumat, 20 Oktober 2017

Aviation History Book Review: My New Guinea Diary

My New Guinea Diary by Staff Sergeant Pilot Ernest C. Ford, White Stag Press, Roseville, Calif., 2010, $19.95.  This book is remarkable for a number of reasons. It is filled with detail—almost daily diary entries relating the wartime experiences of “Ernie” Ford. These are of particular interest because of the dearth of material on noncommissioned …

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