In my sights
Subtitle: the memoir of a P-40 ace
By: James B. Morehead.
Publisher: Presidio
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Novato, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Morehead, James B.; United States. Army Air Forces -- Biography.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.; Fighter pilots -- United States -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: As a young man with uncertain prospects, Jim Morehead was not unlike thousands of other young men who came of age during the Depression. A product of hardscrabble farming in Oklahoma, he enlisted for World War II service in August 1940.

On the 6th of February, 1942, following deployment to the South Pacific, Morehead earned the first of two Distinguished Service Crosses for his actions in his initial combat mission. He describes his wartime service in flying the P-40 Warhawk single engine monoplane against the vaunted Japanese Zero, thought by many to be the finest attack plane of the war.

Not content with becoming an Ace in the Pacific theater, he volunteered for active service in Europe against the Nazi hordes, and served there flying the P-38 fighter, protecting our bomber fleets from attack by the justly feared Luftwaffe.