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- ID
- b158
- Title
- "Yours Is The Earth."
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 4
- Word Count
- 1090
- Publisher
- Britain
- News Chronicle
- Royal Air Force Journal
- Publication Year
- 1942
- Document Types
- First-Person Narratives
- Flying Officer X Byline
- Topics
- Pilots, Death, War
A brief "Flying Officer X" portrait of a pilot whose wife and family were killed in a blitz, one of those "who are slightly insane in their desire to equal the score and who are talked about in messes long after they are dead."
Published in:
- The News Chronicle (June 3, 1942)
- The Royal Air Force Journal (November/December 1943, with the title "Christmas Trees in the Sky")
- There's Something in the Air (1943)
- How Sleep the Brave and Other Stories (1943)
- Britain (December 1943)
- Something in the Air (1944)
- The Stories of Flying Officer 'X' (1952)
- Fair Stood the Wind for France Together with Two Short Stories (1971)
- The Complete Stories of Flying Officer 'X' (Bloomsbury ebook, 2018)
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