Queens Die Proudly

This book was a great account of what our Army Air Crew experienced in the South Pacific at the start of WWII. This book was published in 1943 and is written in a conversation style that is different than many accounts you would typically read. I think this is a great book to have in your library if you can acquire it.

A great account about the early Pacific war and how our airmen still got the job done with shortages of food, planes, parts, fuel, ammunition, etc.

Great book with perspective of the timeframe it is written in. Lot of facts, current historical document of the times they lived in. Enjoyable reading, a good book for aviation and/or model builders. Highly recommended.

"Queens Die Proudly," Excellent account of the very early months of WWII in the South Pacific (B-17 aircraft.) and the brave men who piloted and manned them.Mike in Alamo.

was glade to find this. I have looked for it since high school.

WWII writing style not badly done.

I'm sure that the author William L. White was very disappointed when his book wasn't picked as THE story behind a movie describing the story of The US Army Air Force."Air Force " was indeed fantastic, but White's story has a more detailed image of the utter devastation suffered by the sneak attack from the Japanese Airforce.It would have been a fantastic movie - Whites book is indeed a marvellous book, a moving testament to the brave men of US Army Air Force

This is one of the best books ever published on the history of the 5th Air Force in the early days of WWII in the Pacific. An absolute MUST READ for any historian . . .

It is the story of a Flying Fortress from the time of the fall of the Philippines through to the fall of Java in 1942.The author, W L White, isn't the pilot of the Flying Fortress. W L White is recounting the story of a Flying Fortress that the crew had named "The Swoose" and the accompanying Flying Fortresses (the Queens that Die Proudly) that helped defend the Dutch East Indies from the Japanese onslaught as told to him by the pilot, Frank Kurtz.It is a relatively unusual war memoir (if I can call it that) by an English speaking (United States) pilot in that it is pro-Dutch. All, bar one other war memoir that I have read, have been less than wholeheartedly pro-Dutch, in some instances to put it mildly.I found it to be well written and an easy read.