Hi Dan, great tips on the books – thanks! Which book did Andrieux send you? I found two titles by Jacques Andrieux; LE CIEL ET L'ENFER, FRANCE LIBRE 1940-1945 and Une poignee d'as. I’m wondering if they may be the same book, the latter a reprint of the former under different title? I just ordered Le ciel et l'enfer. It appears to be a diary of sorts, not unlike Mouchotte’s book. Une poignee d'as appears to be hard to come by.
LE CIEL ET L'ENFER, FRANCE LIBRE 1940-1945 is the one he sent me.
And I agree abebooks.com is our friend
Gripen, Art Donahue was from a town in southern Minnesota a couple hours south of me. He wrote two books, the one you mentioned and one called "Last Flight From Singapore" about his time flying Hurricanes during the fall of that city. He was killed over the Channel in a Spit V after an encounter with a Ju88 that he shot down. His engine was damaged and he was never found.
I learned of Donahue from a New Zealand Spit driver from 91 squadron who flew wing with him often in Spit Vs.
