Return From Berlin: The Eye of a NavigatorPen and Sword, 1.3.2005 - 224 sivua During the summer of 1944, the US Eighth Air Force was engaged in a ferocious daytime bombing campaign over Europe. This book is the memoir of a B–17 navigator who found himself far from his American home, based in the English countryside of Northamptonshire. His war in the air, flying deep into enemy territory, surviving intense enemy anti-aircraft fire and enemy fighter attacks, portrays the sometimes conflicting emotions of a young man at war. The book also relates how thfriendship with their eight year-old daughter, a relationship that becomes a symbol of survival. |
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... Force was not prepared to process and train the thousands of willing young hopefuls, and all but the earliest enlistees were sent off to holding programs, starting with Army Infantry Basic Training and, after that, to College Training ...
... Force was not prepared to process and train the thousands of willing young hopefuls, and all but the earliest enlistees were sent off to holding programs, starting with Army Infantry Basic Training and, after that, to College Training ...
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... winnowed , where the Air Force could finally take the measure of what they'd accumulated . We were to be separated as pilot , navigator , or bombardier trainees , or none of the three . A great number were found unsuitable.
... winnowed , where the Air Force could finally take the measure of what they'd accumulated . We were to be separated as pilot , navigator , or bombardier trainees , or none of the three . A great number were found unsuitable.
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... Field near Rapid City , South Dakota , and in a stroke of good fortune , I found that I'd joined one of the finest , bravest bunch of young men the Air Force had so far assembled. I hadn't the slightest reservation about going.
... Field near Rapid City , South Dakota , and in a stroke of good fortune , I found that I'd joined one of the finest , bravest bunch of young men the Air Force had so far assembled. I hadn't the slightest reservation about going.
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... Force organization to Deenethorpe, the base site of the 401st Bomb Group that was by then in a modern state of ruins, and to Yokehill Farm. It was by chance on the fiftieth anniversary of my first mission to Merseburg, and a flood of ...
... Force organization to Deenethorpe, the base site of the 401st Bomb Group that was by then in a modern state of ruins, and to Yokehill Farm. It was by chance on the fiftieth anniversary of my first mission to Merseburg, and a flood of ...
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... FORCE STATION 12 - DEFNETHORPE OCTOBER 1943 – JUNE TSHIS THE BEST DAMNED OUTFIT IN THE USAAF DEDICATED SEPTEMBER 1900 # BOMBARDMENT GROUP ASSOCIATION Friend of the 8th Peter Wood , myself , and Herbert Watson at the 401st monument ...
... FORCE STATION 12 - DEFNETHORPE OCTOBER 1943 – JUNE TSHIS THE BEST DAMNED OUTFIT IN THE USAAF DEDICATED SEPTEMBER 1900 # BOMBARDMENT GROUP ASSOCIATION Friend of the 8th Peter Wood , myself , and Herbert Watson at the 401st monument ...
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