War Birds: Diary Of An Unknown Aviator

[Jackal1]

I have never read the book, but caught the documentary by the same name on the boob tube.
Very interesting.
If you haven`t seen it , I recommend it highly.
It goes into a lot of the mental/nerve state these guys lived under and how it played out in their minds.

[FBplmmr]

I don't know if it's the same one ..but I read the book when I was a kid.

Is the documentary about a WW1 pilot?



The thing that really struck me about the book was because it was in the form of a diary, and then it just abruptly ended.

I wish I still had it.

[Jackal1]

Yes, it was about Grider in WWI from his diary as written by his wingman.

[ChickenHawk]

I caught the last half of it.  Very interesting, raw look at the life of a WWI aviator.

[Sabre]

Wow, that takes me back!  I read that when I was a kid in highschool.  The book belonged to my dad (wonder if he still has it?).  I didn't know someone had turned it into a film.  It inspired me to write a similar story for the book, "Echoes: An Anthology of Warbirds Fiction" (published back when I was flying Warbirds, and before AH).  It tells the story of a German pilot during the battle for France, in the form of diary entries written to the pilot's son.  I posted the fictional diary entries during a multi-day scenario of the Battle of France, one entry each day.  They were actually accounts of my own missions during the scenario, but I posted them without any explanation.  The best compliment I ever got was when someone posted a comment in the thread, which read, "Wow, it's really amazing to read an actual account of the battle.  What ever happened to this pilot?"

[ChickenHawk]

Originally posted by Sabre
Wow, that takes me back!  I read that when I was a kid in highschool.  The book belonged to my dad (wonder if he still has it?).  I didn't know someone had turned it into a film.  It inspired me to write a similar story for the book, "Echoes: An Anthology of Warbirds Fiction" (published back when I was flying Warbirds, and before AH).  It tells the story of a German pilot during the battle for France, in the form of diary entries written to the pilot's son.  I posted the fictional diary entries during a multi-day scenario of the Battle of France, one entry each day.  They were actually accounts of my own missions during the scenario, but I posted them without any explanation.  The best compliment I ever got was when someone posted a comment in the thread, which read, "Wow, it's really amazing to read an actual account of the battle.  What ever happened to this pilot?"

I still have a copy of your "Echoes" book in my library.  I'll have to dig it up and check out your  diary story again.