Robert Sidney Bowen 3 hr 1 min read

The intrepid young flier Dave Dawson takes to the skies over the Solomons in a rousing World War II air-combat adventure.

Robert Sidney Bowen's 1943 juvenile novel, one of the popular Dave Dawson War Adventure series, sends its boy hero into the Pacific fighting of Guadalcanal. A patriotic period piece of wartime aviation fiction for young readers, written as the war raged. Read it for brisk, flag-waving air-war adventure straight from the home front of 1943.

In its time

Published in 1943, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

3 hr 1 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).