Too Young to Die - The Story of a New Zealand Pilot in the Pacific War

Iowa State University Press, 1988, reprint. Some marks on page edges and wear to cover. Creasing to spine.

In this fascinating personal account Bryan Cox describes wartime flight training in New Zealand, operational Corsair flying in the Pacific, and 'occupational' flying duties in Japan at the end of the war - where he was an early observer of the horror of Hiroshima.

'Too Young to Die' is the first detailed account of RNZAF Corsair squadron activity although this involved more aircraft and personnel than any other sphere of New Zealand air operations during World War Two. It is also an account of the pilots - many just teenagers - and their families, and of friendships, sacrifices, anguish and fear.