You can't reasonable expect to go up day after day and expect to survive - not against enemies who not only outnumber you, but are flying, with far greater experience, the Zero, a fighter plane that is faster and more agile than the Wildcat (Chapter 1, pg. 3)

"I sent him to the Pacific to get information I was not getting via the Annapolis Protection Society," Knox said. "He did what I asked him to do. And he's doing a good job now." (Chapter 2, pg. 36)

From a variety of sources, Intelligence had learned that the Japanese would in the near future complete the construction of an airfield near Lunga Point on the north side of the island. If it became operational, Japanese aircraft would dominate the area: News Guinea would almost certainly fall. And an invasion of Australia would become likely (Chapter 3, pg. 49)

"Christ, it's worse than I thought," Pickering...