TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH! (274 pp.)Beirne Lay Jr. & Sy BartlettHarper ($2.75).
Twelve 0'Clock High! is a "novel" about wartime flying that should be dismissed as fiction and read as a document. Written by two 20th Century-Fox screen writers, it could be shot from the cuff by any resourceful director (Hollywood bought it before publication). Its authors were also among the first U.S. flyers to bomb Hitler's Fortress Europe.
Yaleman Beirne Lay Jr. (I Wanted Wings) was commander of the 48th Bomb Group when he was shot down over France (the French underground rescued him and he was back in England three months later)....
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