and brubaker, and michener bring his wife over to korea. of course, in real life their marriage dissolved after the korean war, mainly because he accused her of drinking and fooling around with every officer and correspondent in japan while he was off. so is kind of an idealized picture of what michener was experiencing. to you all remember the character, that mickey rooney played, the helicopter pilot, the guy wearing the green top hat and scarf? his name was mike thorny. the direct parallel for mike forney is a guy named duane thorin. i think it's pronounced doing a story. but he was an american nebraska farm boy who was an enlisted pilot in the navy. i think it's now widely recognized at the beginning of world war ii a fair number of a naval aviators were actually, come to the enlistment ranks. they are and aviation pilots. many of them when world war ii hit got promoted to the officer rank. but duane thorin had started as a pilot during the later stages of world war ii, enlisted status of to chief petty officer. and after the war he sta