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- ID
- b169
- Title
- "Sorry, No Saccharine."
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 5
- Word Count
- 1060
- Publication Year
- 1943
- Document Types
- Flying Officer X Byline
- Topics
- Pilots, War, Age
A "Flying Officer X" story portraying two participants in the service — a sixty-year old veteran of three wars and a nineteen-year-old W.A.A.F.
The narrator ponders "the courage of the old, who think they know, and of the young, who do not understand." The title refers to a catchphrase used by the waitress when referring to anything unavailable in the mess hall.
Published in:
- There's Something in the Air (1943)
- The Complete Stories of Flying Officer 'X' (Bloomsbury ebook, 2018)
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