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- ID
- b162
- Title
- "A Personal War."
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 5
- Word Count
- 1090
- Publisher
- Britain
- Royal Air Force Journal
- Publication Year
- 1942
- Document Types
- First-Person Narratives
- Flying Officer X Byline
- Topics
- Pilots, War
A "Flying Officer X" story about an English pilot, long resident of Texas.
When asked why he has left "the life of a boy's dream: the gun and the notches, the sheriff and the posse, the remote, enormous country," explains that "I was just born with a natural hatred of these swabs. I was born with it and all my life I've been living to work it off...it's a personal argument with me. It's a personal war."
Published in:
- The Royal Air Force Journal (February 7, 1942)
- The Greatest People in the World and Other Stories (1942)
- Britain (December 1943)
- There's Something in the Air (1943)
- Something in the Air (1944)
- The Stories of Flying Officer 'X' (1952)
- The Complete Stories of Flying Officer 'X' (Bloomsbury ebook, 2018)
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