Phil Scearceis a graduate of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA and a 2009 graduate of the
Middle Tennessee State University Writer's Loft Program. He is a
member of the Tennessee Writer's Alliance.
Colonel Jesse E. Staycommanded the 42nd Squadron
in the Pacific.
"Phil Scearce's Finish Forty and Home is a triumph of intimate
history, following the author's seventeen-year-old airman father as
he goes to war in a forgotten but fiercely contested corner of
World War II. Through meticulous research and lyrical prose,
Scearce captures the grim grind of the Pacific war, life and death
in a battered bomb squadron, and the tumultuous experiences of a
B-24 radioman and his crew. Finish Forty and Home is a treasure:
poignant, thrilling, and illuminating."--Laura Hillenbrand,
best-selling author of Unbroken and Seabiscuit
"This book will help those who wish to gain a real insight to the
personal and human aspects of the air war over the Pacific. Sgt.
Scearce's story will surprise no one who was there, and everyone
who was not."--Dr. James A. Mowbray, Professor of Strategy,
Doctrine, and Airpower, Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base
"Scearce does a very good job of depicting the helter skelter of
air combat or the sometimes prolonged fight to keep an aircraft in
flight. The thing that comes across most clearly--a point essential
to understanding the experience of fighting in World War II--is
that the war was not a series of battles (they were highpoints) but
an endless process of violence that extracted physical and
psychological damage like a kind of water torture. There were so
many different ways to die. Consequently, life was cheap."--Eric M.
Bergerud, author of Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South
Pacific and Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South
Pacific
"This history brings back memories of the dear friends who gave
their lives in this war and is a tribute to them and to all those,
like Sergeant Herman Scearce, who laid their lives on the line and
were blessed to survive. It is a comfort to know that this record
has been written in remembrance of these patriots and of this part
of our war in the Pacific."--Colonel Jesse E. Stay, U.S. Air Force
(ret)
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