tileman1814
Kalispell, MT
66, joined Nov. 2007
|
Years ago I read a book about a RAF pilot flying a De Havilland Mosquito cross country in real bad weather on his way home for christmas.As he made his way through the fog another plane came along and guided him to his home field.The other plane flew off.It seems that the other plane was a phytom.
I don't remember who wrote the book and I don't remember the title.If someone knows this book or has an idea where I can look for it,I would be greatful.
SEmper Fi !!!
Meet singles at DateHookup.dating, we're 100% free! Join now!
|
jamesbondjames
Denver, CO
32, joined Nov. 2009
|
well i'm quite a film junkie and i know there's a movie called purple plain with the exact plane you're talking about. it was adapted from a book of the same title. ugh it's been so long since ive seen it though the plot escapes me. does that sound right at all though?
|
tileman1814
Kalispell, MT
66, joined Nov. 2007
|
It's worth a look.Thanks for the help.
Semper Fi !!!
|
tileman1814
Kalispell, MT
66, joined Nov. 2007
|
I found Purple Plain the book and the movie.It was the wrong one but i did buy the book.
Still looking.
Semper Fi !!!
|
nadine1982
Robertsdale, AL
35, joined Feb. 2010
|
try books a million. there great.good luck
|
loner1969
Lebanon, KY
48, joined Oct. 2008
|
The Shepherd by Frederick Forsyth I believe is the book you are talking about . It is a haunting variation of the urban myth legend in which someone's life is saved but then they learn that the person who saved there life died years before . The book is set in 1957 but the pilot who saved the other pilots life died in World War Two fourteen years before . Could this possibly be the book that you are looking for ?
|
lacier
Dothan, AL
38, joined Jul. 2010
|
If anybody's looking for a funny book. She tells all, is hilarious. you can find it on amazon.com
|
travalone
Strafford, MO
65, joined Aug. 2008
|
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Shepherd
Author Frederick Forsyth
Cover artist Lou Peck
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Viking Press
Publication date September 30, 1976
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 123 pp
ISBN 0-670-63969-9
OCLC Number 2437079
Dewey Decimal 823/.9/14
LC Classification PZ4.F7349 Sh3 PR6056.O699
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Shepherd is a 1976 novella by Frederick Forsyth. Forsyth created as an original work as a Christmas gift to his wife after she requested a ghost story be written for her. Written on Christmas Day, and published near that time a year later, the idea came while trying to think of a setting away from the typical haunted homes, and seeing planes flying overhead. Many have speculated references to preexisting RAF folklore. While Forsyth was a former RAF pilot and could have heard and adapted such a story (either with or without the intent to do so) no references or anecdotal evidence have been put forward to support such claims.
The Shepherd relates the story of a De Havilland Vampire pilot, going home on Christmas Eve 1957, whose aircraft suffers a complete electrical failure en route from RAF Celle in northern Germany to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk. Lost in fog and low on fuel, he is met and led (or shepherded) to a disused RAF dispersal field by the pilot of a De Havilland Mosquito fighter/bomber of World War II vintage, who has apparently been sent up to guide him in.
His attempts to find a rational explanation for his eventual rescue prove as troublesome as his experience. However, some time after he lands at the airfield - the fictional RAF Minton - he learns that his saviour was Johnny Kavanagh, a wartime RAF pilot who had been stationed at Minton and who had guided crippled bombers home. The Vampire pilot also learns that Kavanagh disappeared over the North Sea in his Mosquito on his last mission, on Christmas Eve, exactly fourteen years before.
I checkd Barnes and Nobel .... their web site doesn't lis this one for sale.
However, here is the link to the Amazon.com listing.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dus-stripbooks-tree&field-keywords=The+Shepherd&ih=7_3_1_1_0_0_0_1_0_1.109_486&fsc=-1&x=10&y=22
Hope this helps ... Mike
|
loverofthesea
Upper Lake, CA
68, joined Sep. 2010
|
I knew I had read this - I think it was a short story (or novella) in a collection by Forcythe but not sure about it. Good luck.
|