“FIGHTERS.”

ATC Observer, Volume 3, Issue 8, 2 March 1945, Page 8

“FIGHTERS.”

The need has long been felt for a book that would tell in full the deeds done by the men of the R.N.Z.A.F. in the Pacific. Not a book that reads like a sheaf of official communiques, but one that would paint a stirring picture of actual events in the mind of the reader, one that would be both authoritative and interesting. That book has arrived. Abounding in human interest it more than lives up to expectations, it has all the promises of a best seller. Full credit for its literary excellence must be given to its author, Leo White. “Fighters” will rank alongside Leo White’s “Wingspread” as the two aeronautical history books of New Zealand. Leo White has written “Fighters” in the inimitable breezy style that ‘made’ “Wingspread.” He depicts graphically the life that is lived by New Zealand’s fighter-pilots, and ground crews, in the steaming jungle clearings of their air-strip, somewhere in the Solomons. The book, with a Foreword by the Chief of Air Staff, Air ViceMarshal L. M. Isitt, is published by Whites Aviation' Ltd.