God is My Co-pilot

American memoir of World War II set in the China Burma India Theater

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Instance of: written work
Publication date: 1943
Author: Robert Lee Scott Jr.
Derivative works: God Is My Co-Pilot
Genre: memoir
Main subject: Robert Lee Scott Jr.
Depicts: P-40 Warhawk model, World War II, aviation, Japanese occupation of Burma, Second Sino-Japanese War
author of foreword: Claire Lee Chennault
copyright status: copyrighted
country of origin: United States
first line: Even the angels in heaven must have shrugged their wings after the few seconds of my first flight.
has version, edition or translation: God is My Co-pilot, God is My Co-pilot, God is My Co-pilot
language of work or name: English
last line: I pulled almost straight up in the steep climb that I like to make before diving home, and looked into the vivid blue of the Yunnan skies. Some verses were running through my thoughts. Against the drumming of the engine I heard my own voice repeating the words of another fighter pilot, John Magee, who had died with the RAF in the battle of Britain.
narrative location: China Burma India Theater, Republic of China
place of publication: New York City
publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
set in period: Century of Humiliation, American Century, short twentieth century
subtitle: The Autobiography of a U.S. Pilot in World War II
title: God is My Co-pilot

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