The Sea Witch

This is an okay book written by Stephen Coonts and divided into three novellas. First, when a young dauntless dive-bomber pilot is sacked for reckless behavior, he’s reassigned to a Black Cat squadron as the copilot of a giant Catalina seaplane, The Sea Witch. Second, seventeen days...the average life expectancy of a British aviator during World War I. Last three weeks and you were practically a veteran. Third, Charles Dean is retired from the military, determined to be done with that part of his life. But when Julie Giraud, the daughter of his old commander, seeks him out, he can’t say no to a simple lunch.