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Wilson Heflon, Herman Melville's Whaling Years. Ed. Mary K. Bercaw Edwards and Thomas F. Heffernan.(Book Review)

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Date: 20050201
Author:Madison, R.D.

Wilson Heflin, Herman Melville's Whaling Years. Ed. Mary K. Bercaw Edwards and Thomas F. Heffernan. Vanderbilt University Press, 2004. xxv, 332 pages.

Near the end of World War II, Wilson Heflin, a Navy Flight Instructor at Corpus Christi, Texas, was attending to some business in the belly of an airborne PBY amphibious aircraft. There was a jolt of turbulence, when he found himself suspended in air over the open bomb-bay doors, looking down at the earth beneath. Another jolt, and he safely made contact with the aircraft again, and lived to tell the tale.

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