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Low and Slow: Liberation of the Philippines
As Viewed From 800 Feet Above the Ground
By Don Moore
ISBN:
0-9670334-0-3
Trade Paperback; 250 pages; illustrated
Retail $20.00
A wonderful companion
book to
Janey:
A Little Plane in a Big War and
Flying
Low: And shot down twice
during
World War II in a spotter plane
This
book “...is like listening to a favorite uncle entertaining his nephews
with an old adventure so extraordinary
that he still can’t quite believe
that he took part in it. A delightful
book.”
--Daniel
Ford, SmithsonianAir & Space Magazine book review
Like
Janey:
A Little Plane in a Big War by Alfred W. Schultz, this is a personal
history
of a liaison pilot in World War II. The difference
between the two books is that
Janey is about the liberation of North Africa
and Europe. Low and Slow is about the liberation
of the Philippines as seen from 800 feet up.
The book’s
title comes from the mother who urged:
“Son, be careful; fly low and
slow.”
Low and
slow is exactly where any military pilot doesn’t want to be, but it is
where
Army artillery spotters such as Schultz and Moore
spent their time.
As Alfred
Schultz received credit for downing a German fighter in Europe with his
Piper Cub, Janey, Moore once had a dogfight with a
Japanese Zero. Moore’s Piper Cub
was armed with a carbine while the Zero had two cannons
and two machine guns. Moore and
his rear seat “gunner” escaped by landing as the Zero
set itself up for a fast attack.
Moore and his companion had just made it to a ditch
when the Zero passed over.
Moore had
been warned by his commander that the odds didn’t favor a liaison pilot:
“All you have to do is fly one of these things long
enough, and it will get you.”
Fortunately, it didn't.
LOW
AND SLOW
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