The Phantom Fighter

It was 1942 a year after the Pearl Harbour attack When Hawaiian radar picked up a plane as a fact So a patrol was scrambled to seek it out And they encountered a P40 fighter flying alone It was shot up with its land gear gone And the pilot flew on with blood on his face He didn’t acknowledge the fighters searching from their base Then suddenly the P40 fighter plunged into the ground Later a search party was unable to find the wreckage lying around No P40 was missing when they checked And it was not found again as you would expect So a legend of the phantom fighter was forever known With the pilot flying on in a ghostly flight as it was shown. © Paul Warren Poetry