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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... gone to Deerfield to stay with Grandpa and Grandma, a humiliating prospect, but Mamma thought the Texas option would, since it was expected to be short term, be very educational for me. At this point mother saw fit to fill out the story ...
... gone to Deerfield to stay with Grandpa and Grandma, a humiliating prospect, but Mamma thought the Texas option would, since it was expected to be short term, be very educational for me. At this point mother saw fit to fill out the story ...
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... gone and their belongings were packed off , we were joined by old friends , that is , old Air Force school buddies , pilot Ken Murgatroyd , copilot Jim Pennoyer , navigator Owen Jorgenson , and bombardier John Elderkin . Our pilot ...
... gone and their belongings were packed off , we were joined by old friends , that is , old Air Force school buddies , pilot Ken Murgatroyd , copilot Jim Pennoyer , navigator Owen Jorgenson , and bombardier John Elderkin . Our pilot ...
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... gone to war while all the art people he knew were non- coms back at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, a short bus ride from The National Gallery, drawing tech manuals nine to five weekdays. In addition to landscaping, I was an enthusiastic ...
... gone to war while all the art people he knew were non- coms back at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, a short bus ride from The National Gallery, drawing tech manuals nine to five weekdays. In addition to landscaping, I was an enthusiastic ...
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... gone too long; they wouldn't send us to Berlin the first time out. Jardine is putting on his heavy GI shoes and occasionally blowing his nose. He grunts and sucks in a deep breath and, with his back to me, says, “Hey, Robert, I've been ...
... gone too long; they wouldn't send us to Berlin the first time out. Jardine is putting on his heavy GI shoes and occasionally blowing his nose. He grunts and sucks in a deep breath and, with his back to me, says, “Hey, Robert, I've been ...
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