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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... Germans are still in the sack . Jesus , it's cold for June . The toilet seat will feel like a stone in the North Sea . The light moves on , and the patronizing voice whispers again , to someone else , " Sir , it's time . " My nose-bowl ...
... Germans are still in the sack . Jesus , it's cold for June . The toilet seat will feel like a stone in the North Sea . The light moves on , and the patronizing voice whispers again , to someone else , " Sir , it's time . " My nose-bowl ...
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... MP checks us at the door of the briefing hall . No unauthorized personnel or German spies at this Wagnerian production . It's certainly a theatrical setting , a place where even clichés have deep meaning , my first glimpse.
... MP checks us at the door of the briefing hall . No unauthorized personnel or German spies at this Wagnerian production . It's certainly a theatrical setting , a place where even clichés have deep meaning , my first glimpse.
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... German fighter command and major service facilities are located at Le Bourget, and they constitute a serious threat to our advancing troops. It will be a stoutly defended target, and I wish I could say that you will have complete ...
... German fighter command and major service facilities are located at Le Bourget, and they constitute a serious threat to our advancing troops. It will be a stoutly defended target, and I wish I could say that you will have complete ...
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