Landing Was the Easy Part

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Summary: About a fighter bomber pilot
Review: As a USS Essex history,and Navy history buff this book was right up my alley. Air Group 83 boarded the Aircraft Carrier The Essex on March 11, 1945. They stayed till the war ended. Lt.(jg) Edward Pappert writes about life aboard the carrier. He takes you with him on strikes against the Japanese homeland.

His description of the sinking of Japans, first and last,super battle ship The Yamato, the invasion of Okinawa, and other events help fill in a lot of the gaps in events in history that I am interested in.

In this book Edward Pappert describes what it's like living aboard. He talks of late evening snacks of hot chocolate and toast with strawberry preserves and playing Acey Duecy. About take offs and landings, about flying in miserable weather; friends shot down, flying combat air patrol and air strikes. The book is written in a diary format, and reminiscing and reflections, the way it was for a fighter-bomber pilot. I enjoyed this book - a very good read.

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Summary: Landing Was the Easy Part
Review: I felt like I was in the airplane with the author on strikes against the Japanese homeland. The information of life aboard an aircraft carrier was most informative. The pictures were outstanding.

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Summary: Takes reader into naval air combat off Japanese Home Islands
Review: Vivid eyewitness account of carrier based naval air combat and shipboard life off the Japanese Home Islands in the last months of the War in the Pacific. Ed Pappert, a fighter bomber pilot flying off the Essex, brings it all to life in ways never described in most other accounts. What great heros these young pilots were.