The old airman who straps in the narrator tells him to be careful. Once their planes are refuelled, the two of them get ready to fly off towards their destination in the Libyan Desert. They discuss the shaking airmen there who have been stretched too thin by the war effort. He’s a pilot, and he describes landing at Fouka with his fellow pilot Peter. The narrator explains that he doesn’t remember much before it happened. Spoiler warning! The story is told entirely in the first person. (You can read more about this controversy on the “Shot Down Over Libya” page.) Furthermore, Dahl didn’t crash as a result of enemy fire, but rather because of poor directions and lack of fuel. This version was written by Dahl almost thirty years later. Dahl’s first story was called “Shot Down Over Libya” and it’s nothing like this one. In The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Dahl claims that this is his “first story” and that it tells the story of how he was shot down over the Libyan Desert.
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