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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... face of my sometimes intransigent moods . Then too , my peer readers , with their wonderfully complimentary words recommending approval of the book , brought joy to my heart . They are Bruce Murray and Harold Scheub of the University of ...
... face of my sometimes intransigent moods . Then too , my peer readers , with their wonderfully complimentary words recommending approval of the book , brought joy to my heart . They are Bruce Murray and Harold Scheub of the University of ...
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... face of such a calamity , and prepared for the trip as if we were going on vacation . But , long before it ever came to that , when I was first learning the rudiments of life , she told me , as her closest confidant , that my father had ...
... face of such a calamity , and prepared for the trip as if we were going on vacation . But , long before it ever came to that , when I was first learning the rudiments of life , she told me , as her closest confidant , that my father had ...
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... face , flushing away my dream . It's persistent and vaguely threatening . The light also has an obsequious voice and a respectful hand connected with it . " Sir , " the voice says , " time to rise and shine , " and the hand gently ...
... face , flushing away my dream . It's persistent and vaguely threatening . The light also has an obsequious voice and a respectful hand connected with it . " Sir , " the voice says , " time to rise and shine , " and the hand gently ...
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... faces of the other guys . I still have that strange gut feeling I had when I was waiting for the day : I think of Vicksburg and my great - grandad with his mangled right arm and of my dead father with a big flag draped over his coffin ...
... faces of the other guys . I still have that strange gut feeling I had when I was waiting for the day : I think of Vicksburg and my great - grandad with his mangled right arm and of my dead father with a big flag draped over his coffin ...
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... face . He looks like he cares about our fate , though not like a chaplain . Nonetheless he looks as if he expects every man to do his duty , but he's certainly not your stereotyped cigar - chomping Air Force colonel . " At ease ...
... face . He looks like he cares about our fate , though not like a chaplain . Nonetheless he looks as if he expects every man to do his duty , but he's certainly not your stereotyped cigar - chomping Air Force colonel . " At ease ...
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