The life of a US Navy Pilot in the Korean War - Milton Solon Kimball
" A Panther Jet unfolds its wings as it fastened to the ship's catapult gear...With helmets, map kits, and oxygen masks, pilots, well briefed for the approaching strike, board their waiting aircraft. As the catapult officer signals for a full power turn-up, men stand ready in catapult machinery rooms five decks below to pull the lever that will send the jet streaking down the track and into the air at 120 knots. Above the clouds, a destruction-bombed Panther Jet streaks westward toward the Korean coast . At the head of the formation the flight leaders pinpoint the target on their charts. The planes move in and are now over the target. The sky is filled with enemy flak which is desperately trying to stop the incoming raiders. Black puffs of death are everywhere. Then the strike goes in...tons of bombs and rockets plummet earthward. There are brilliant flashes and the whole countryside erupts in explosions of fire and smoke. The guns that had been sending up their deadly fire