CLASSICS GOD IS MY CO-PILOT

摘要

I grew up hearing stories about the air war in China. During World War Ⅱ, my father was an aircraft electrical systems mechanic in Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force. My father knew and worked on the aircraft of many of the legendary pilots of that theater, including Colonel Robert L. Scott during his second tour of duty in China in 1944-45. I was probably 12 or 13 in the late 1950s when I read God Is My Co-Pilot for the first time. I re-read it for the umpteenth time about two months ago. It was one of the first memoirs to come out of WWⅡ, and it remains to this day one of the greatest. First published in 1943, it stayed in print well into the late 1960s.