H.E. Bates Companion

A long action-packed "Flying Officer X" story in which a young sergeant and his mates are downed in the English channel and reach land in a rubber dinghy. InThe 1943 Saturday Book (October 1942), the Royal Air Force Journal (November 1942), There's Something In The Air (1943), The Stories of Flying Officer 'X' (1952), A Month by the Lake & Other Stories (1987). Reprinted in Senior Scholastic (April 10, 1944), Slipstream: a Royal Air Force Anthology (1946), Contemporary Short Stories (1958), Adventure (London: J. Murray, 1980), Mysterious Air Stories (1986). The story also appeared with the title "The Hungry Sea" in Argosy -- The Complete Men's Magazine in June, 1951.