2 books by Arthur Donahue
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Overview: American pilot who volunteered, before America’s entry in World War II, to fly with the Royal Air Force. He flew fighters with No. 64 Squadron during the Battle of Britain, No. 71 ‘Eagle’ Squadron (one of three fighter squadrons consisting of American volunteers), No. 91 Squadron, No. 258 Squadron, and lastly again with No. 91 Squadron. He was killed in action when his plane was shot down over the English Channel. Veteran of the Battle of Britain and the Battle of Singapore and a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC). Author of ‘Tally-Ho!: Yankee in a Spitfire’ (1941) and the posthumously published ‘Last Flight from Singapore’ (1943).
Genre: Non Fiction > History > Memoir
Last Flight from Singapore
In June 1940 a young commercial pilot from Minnesota, Arthur Donahue, signed up to become a pilot in the R.A.F.
He would spend the next two years fighting for the British in their Spitfire and Hurricane planes over the Channel and in the Far East.
During the Battle of Britain and Battle for Singapore he distinguished himself and was greatly respected by his comrades who flew alongside him.
Eventually he would lose his life fighting for the Allied cause.
Last Flight from Singapore documents Donahue’s life from the autumn of 1941 through to the evacuation of Java after being wounded in “the greatest military disaster ever suffered by British arms.”
It is an incredibly personal account that highlights the dangers of the path that Donahue had taken.
With his vivid description of the dogfights, the humor of the pilot’s mess, technical details of the planes and the constant threat of danger Last Flight from Singapore transports the reader back to the skies of World War Two.
Tally-Ho!: Yankee in a Spitfire
In 1940, an ordinary American from a Midwest farm came to a country at war, joined its fighting forces, mingled with its fighting men, and fought and fell and fought again.
Donahue felt it his duty as a believer in a civilised way of life to throw his lot in with Britain, and felt it a privilege to be able to serve alongside her forces.
A civilian pilot, upon hearing that the R.A.F. was hiring Americans for non-combatant jobs Donahue made his way to Canada, where he was promptly hired.
Shipped to Britain, Donahue was commissioned as a Pilot Officer and began the transition to a war-time fighter pilot as the skies above Britain transformed into a battlefield.
Filled with technical insights and descriptions of what his senses experienced, Donahue transports the reader into his heavy fur-lined flying boots.
As an American abroad Donahue’s memoir also acts as window to a bygone age, shining a light onto life in England during the Blitz from a visitor’s point of view.
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