[Does so]

“At Dawn We Slept” was my Dad’s favorite book.

A VP-17 Black-Cat PBY Pilot in the Pacific (with “Enlisted Pilot” Lou Conter in the right seat), he kept this text next to his favorite chair until he died—aged 97.

[Captain Walker]

As informative as the book is, it's no easy read, as you may already know.

If your father was that familiar with it, it sounds like he was a real intellectual.