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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... as a lead team , August 1944 Interrogation , August 1944 Bombing strike photo , railroad marshaling yard , Münster Porter Ham and Robert Grilley , September 1992 Acknowledgments For a beginner at my advanced age , a. Illustrations.
... as a lead team , August 1944 Interrogation , August 1944 Bombing strike photo , railroad marshaling yard , Münster Porter Ham and Robert Grilley , September 1992 Acknowledgments For a beginner at my advanced age , a. Illustrations.
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... Porter Ham, Russell Lockhart, and Ray Miller. Front row: Grilley, Lloyd Null, Elno Pyles, and Otto Schlaegel. In the fall of 1945, having gotten back to the real world, I painted a little English landscape with a B-17 on landing ...
... Porter Ham, Russell Lockhart, and Ray Miller. Front row: Grilley, Lloyd Null, Elno Pyles, and Otto Schlaegel. In the fall of 1945, having gotten back to the real world, I painted a little English landscape with a B-17 on landing ...
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... Porter Ham was my companion on our occasional trips to London, and even a half-century has not dimmed some of the well-etched remembrances. One remains particularly bright in afterimage and loud and clear in echo. It happened on a ...
... Porter Ham was my companion on our occasional trips to London, and even a half-century has not dimmed some of the well-etched remembrances. One remains particularly bright in afterimage and loud and clear in echo. It happened on a ...
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... Porter and I had already been to Berlin , but this was our first close view of a real occurrence in the new style total war . It was educational . Sometimes , back before my combat tour had begun , I would go to watch the return of our ...
... Porter and I had already been to Berlin , but this was our first close view of a real occurrence in the new style total war . It was educational . Sometimes , back before my combat tour had begun , I would go to watch the return of our ...
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... Porter and I stopped at the PX to buy razor blades and soap , since we still lived in a semi - formal military style , and anyway , beards , no matter how short , were intolerable with the oxygen mask . I also got some Wrigley's ...
... Porter and I stopped at the PX to buy razor blades and soap , since we still lived in a semi - formal military style , and anyway , beards , no matter how short , were intolerable with the oxygen mask . I also got some Wrigley's ...
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