Novel (Restart): Part I: Devastator
I'm starting a new thread because I have a new beginning, and because I am dropped the working title "Torpedo Junction". While the book is about a torpedo bomber pilot, I don't think the title, a...
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I was out with my buddies from the squadron one night in Honolulu when I ran into her. I had not seen her in years, and Hawaii in the middle of a war was the last place I would have expected to find...
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When an aircraft carrier enters a port such as Pearl Harbor, the planes of her air group take off while she is still at sea, to fly ahead and land at an airfield ashore. When the carrier sets sail...
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The white wakes appeared below, and soon we saw black shapes develop on the blue sea; we had rendezvoused with Task Force 16, a force of cruisers and destroyers surrounding the aircraft carrier USS...
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“we can see how that worked out.” - a subtle point, maybe, but this strikes me as a very modern expression. Not at all sure it would have been used in 1941. Kind of like a character saying OK before...
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Welcome aboard Desert Sailor!Outside of the more obviously modern expressions, it's hard to know what expressions might or might not be used then. Maybe instead he can say, "we saw the results of...
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Okay, so after all this time, I finally came up with a title for this novel, as well as for the possible sequal.And Should We DiePart I: DevastatorThis follows the main character through the first six...
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