cover image Nanette: Her Pilot's Love Story

Nanette: Her Pilot's Love Story

Edwards Park. Smithsonian Books, $14.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-87474-737-9

` `Nanette , a tempermental P-39 Airacobra, was a Gopher squadron plane flying against the Japanese in New Guinea. To Park, she was a `sexy machine, and rotten.' Together they flew countless wartime missions, so vividly described here that the reader sighs with relief when Nanette and her pilot return safely,'' reported PW . Illustrated. (Oct.)