Escape From Korea

While the pilots of F15s, Stealths, and the high-tech Apaches fly their 21st century missions above Iraq, return to their bases, and down their MREs, seasoned aviator John J. Fischer can still taste the soggy cornflakes he ate 50-plus years ago aboard a lumbering carrier in the Yellow Sea. Served in pitching mess halls just off the coast of North Korea—such meals were often the last for pilots catapulted from their flight decks into the reality of mid-20th century battle. Fortunate Korean War pilots returned mission-accomplished, however many others perished in the dangerous waters of enemy rice paddies. A number survived capture, made daring escapes, and performed heroic acts of survival and rescue. Back on ship, these men were often met and debriefed by Major John J. Fischer. Fischer draws from these individual and compelling tales of mission, capture, escape and survival to write a convincing narrative of the trials of war. It was once Fischer's job to assist those who endured to return, retrace, and relate those horrible, trying and heroic moments of battle. Escape from Korea does the same.