Book Review: An Ace of the Eighth

Another book down in less than a week, but this is what happens when mal travels.

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The book is An Ace of the Eight by Norman “Bud” Fortier. The book is another World War 2 story about aircraft (surprise suprise). This time it follows a pilot who flew fighters for the Eighth Air Force in Europe during the war.

The Eighth is that famous unit you always hear about in movies etc as they were the first American’s to fly over Europe and also had all the big names like Doolittle, Spaatz and I believe a few famous actors were pilots in the eighth.

This book follows a pilot who started off flying P47 Thunderbolt and moved onto Mustangs. This saddened me a little as by the cover art when I chose this book figured it was mainly about the “jug” but obviously wrong.

Still a good, but detailed book about a fighter pilot over Europe but a different perspective to previous reads as pilots of the Eighth were stationed in the UK so this means that each evening they were able to return home to their base (pending weather of course) and able to at times be safely well away from the War raging in Europe.

This is not a bad book, but just was not what I was expecting! Still a good read though.