[NickM]

Originally Posted by Col Bruggy

Bruce,

Have you read Parks' autobiography?

He has this to say about his opponent:

"As for the Jap pilot, I often wonder whether he got down all right and survived the war. If I should go to Japan, I might stop a few likely looking old men in bars - small men with fast reactions - and through a interpreter find out if they'd once flown fighters in New Guinea, if they'd once strafed Gusap, and then been shot down by a P-47, and bailed out over the Bogadgim Road. If one says yes, I'd tell him he owes me."

See:
Angel's Twenty.
Park,Ted
St Lucia:University of Queensland Press,1994 (s/b).
p.173.

Park wrote another book entitled, Nanette, an exaggeration by Edwards Park (London:Andre Deutsch,1978). This book focuses on his P-39 "Nanette". He also worked on papers and magazines in Australia post-war.

https://www.pacificwrecks.com/people...ark/index.html

https://www.pacificwrecks.com/people.../obituary.html

Col.

I loved 'Nanette'! Park had such a 'unconventional' style of writing and he was definitely not 'ace' material. Rather than a hunter he came across as more 'prey'. It's rare to see stuff from guys who were 'just doing their jobs'.

nm