Title: Sketches.
Review: This is a collection of first-person reports of dogfights against Axis fighter planes by American fighter aces, with strategy for each theater of operations and biographical material thrown in. Episodes are as repetitive and numbing as the dogfights they describe. Either the flyer got up behind the foe, fired, and watched the enemy go down, or the enemy got behind the American, who nevertheless escaped (since these aces survived to tell their story). The most interesting tale, and the longest, deals with a downed pilot escaping through enemy lines into Normandy after D-Day. Also interesting is the service records of aces after WWII. The structure and style of this book, keyed to reporting action only, make it seem heavy.
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