Check Six!: A Thunderbolt Pilot's War Across the Pacific

Check Six is a most unusual book. It is quite a good personal war memoir, detailing Curran's experiences as a combat pilot in the Pacific war. (I expect it is the last such we will get from WW2 as they have almost all passed on.) However, it also reads like a formal history as it is heavily footnoted, has multiple appendixes, and is intermixed with excerpts from the unit history of the “Black Rams” of the 348th fighter group.
Overall, quite an interesting book; I learned a lot about the actions of the US Army Air Corps in the Pacific war. Solid four stars.

Note: The GR author link is incorrect. It goes to Jim Curran the British mountaineer.