Title: An unexamined life
Product review: The author has given us the shallowest of memoirs on his experiences as an Army Air Force pilot in the SW Pacific flying A-20G Havocs during the period July 1944-April 1945. There are lots of details about the aircraft but no sense of the man, his inner life or the emotional and physical price he paid in combat.Fifty-plus years on Rutter is as puzzled as he was in April 1945 when Doc Walsh, the group's doctor, grounded him and suggested that he request a transfer out of combat.The author seems incapable of the self-analysis, the self-awareness, that bring such depth and timeliness to works such as E.B. Sledge's "With the Old Breed" or Paul Fussell's "The Boys' Crusade".
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