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- ID
- b151
- Title
- "O'Callaghan's Girl."
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 5
- Word Count
- 1020
- Publisher
- Jerusalem Radio Forum
- News Chronicle
- Publication Year
- 1942
- Document Types
- Flying Officer X Byline
- Topics
- Pilots, Death, War
A brief "Flying Officer X" story of a quiet pilot with a French girlfriend and a father in a concentration camp.
"I felt suddenly that I knew all about O'Callaghan: why he was flying, why he was always so far away, why there was bitterness on his face."
Published in:
- The News Chronicle (February 16, 1942)
- Jerusalem Radio Forum (August 21, 1942)
- There's Something in the Air (1943)
- The Complete Stories of Flying Officer 'X' (Bloomsbury ebook, 2018)
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