When ordering from the US, parcels may be subject to import tax and duty charges, which the buyer is responsible to pay. Flights of Passage: Recollections of a World War II Aviator by Samuel Lynn Hynes This product data sheet is originally written in English. PRODUCT DESCRIPTION CONDITION: NEW Flights of Passage: Recollections of a World War II Aviator by Samuel Lynn Hynes Paperback, 270 Pages, Published 2003 The exciting true story of the spy who helped stop Hitler from winning the war. Samuel Hynes served as a consultant on "The War," directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, and appears on camera in several episodes."The War" is a seven-part, 14-hour documentary series that debuts on PBS on Sunday, September 23, 2007.Sam Hynes was eighteen when he left his Minnesota home for navy flight school in 1943. By the time the war ended he was a veteran Marine pilot, still not quite twenty-one, and had flown more than a hundred missions in the Pacific theater. In this eloquent narrative, by turns dramatic, funny, and elegiac, Hynes recalls those extraordinary years during which he came of age. he makes real the places the training fields and the liberty towns and the Pacific islands, and the people the other young pilots, the girls and the young wives, even the enemy pilots. He remembers friendship, and the excitement and tedium of war, the high exhilaration of flying, and the dying. More than a tale of combat, Flight of Passage is a story of one boy's growth to manhood in the turbulent, testing world of war in the air. " ACTUAL PHOTOS UPLOADED ? Copyright . All rights reserved. / Samuel Hynes served as a consultant on "The War," directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, and appears on camera in several episodes."The War" is a seven-part, 14-hour documentary series that debuts on PBS on Sunday, September 23, 2007.Sam Hynes was eighteen when he left his Minnesota home for navy flight school in 1943. By the time the war ended he was a veteran Marine pilot, still not quite twenty-one, and had flown more than a hundred missions in the Pacific theater. In this eloquent narrative, by turns dramatic, funny, and elegiac, Hynes recalls those extraordinary years during which he came of age. he makes real the places the training fields and the liberty towns and the Pacific islands, and the people the other young pilots, the girls and the young wives, even the enemy p Publisher Penguin Publishing Group Item Height 0.6in. Language English Author Samuel Hynes Item Weight 7.6 Oz Format United Kingdom-B Format Paperback Item Width 5in. Topic Military / World War II Topic Military / Aviation Topic Military Publication Year 2003 Item Length 7.7in. Book Title Flights of Passage : Recollections of a World War II Aviator Genre Biography Autobiography Genre History Number of Pages 272 Pages