Fate is the Hunter Study Guide

Ernest K. Gann, the author of the autobiography, learned how to fly in the earliest days of aviation. He attended flight school and was trained as one of the first commercial pilots in the United States of America. He flew commercial routes in New England for a few years prior to World War II. Then, throughout the war, he flew as a civilian pilot for the Air Transport Command. After the war, he found the return to short flights in New England somewhat boring and joined a startup company flying between California and Honolulu. Although he enjoyed working for the company, it failed. He then worked for another company performing unscheduled long flights in the South Pacific. During this period, the Korean War was fought, and Gann once again flew the men and materiel of war. After the Korean War Gann continued flying for a few more years until he felt that his own fate with death was approaching; to avoid death, he retired from flying. (read more)