Check Six!: A Thunderbolt Pilot’s War Across the Pacific Hardcover – 31 July 2015

I liked the personal accont of the Pilot from start of his journey to the happy ending in Chicago. I am intersted that conflict between two different cultures.It complements accounts like Jungle Road to Tokyo by Gen Eclinberger. I did not like the profusion of all the references, as it suggested a scholerly book-it is not.Its a mistake to mix the two. His views on Gen MacArthur were interesting.."The Naked and the Dead" book view. If i visit Chicago I would like to meet him.

A very interesting, highly informative book. It follows Jim Curran's admittance into the military, his training and finally becoming a member of a squadron flying the fantastic Republic P47 Thunderbolt. His time in the Pacific theatre was a time of tremendous physical hardship. The living conditions, and poor food, on the sometimes makeshift air strips used to take such a toll on the crews that every time they'd lost 30 to 40 pounds of weight they were shipped off to Sydney for a weeks R&R to rest and regain their health. All this and they still had to battle against the Japanese hoards. An excellent book.

Not one of the best flying wartime book but certainly showed how difficult war in the Pacific really was on the planes and crews. Flying from rough air bases and living in tents some of the time.

Well written , and illuminating Autobiography detailing the authors experiences in WW2 in the Pacific flying P47s and P51s

Amazing story of Pilot and Plane. I would love to see a Thunderbolt flying sadly not likely in this country. The book is also a great personal account of one mans wartime story. Well worth a read.

Bit of a list rather than an interesting commentary on the Pacific War

A classic and deservedly so. A must for historians, but also for anyone who wants to know what it was like to fly and fight in a P47 Thunderbolt.

Amazing book