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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... guys who did it in winter . Even the food was good - the best he'd ever had , an enormous improvement over his fare as an impoverished student . The 8th Air Force even had its own ice cream factory . Deenethorpe . If you were writing a ...
... guys who did it in winter . Even the food was good - the best he'd ever had , an enormous improvement over his fare as an impoverished student . The 8th Air Force even had its own ice cream factory . Deenethorpe . If you were writing a ...
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... guys . When Porter and I reached the squadron area , Murgatroyd and Pennoyer were standing in front of the posting board . They grinned , giving us the thumbs - up signal , and Pennoyer uttered the famous quip , " You'll be sorry ...
... guys . When Porter and I reached the squadron area , Murgatroyd and Pennoyer were standing in front of the posting board . They grinned , giving us the thumbs - up signal , and Pennoyer uttered the famous quip , " You'll be sorry ...
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... 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 and the American ...
... 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 and the American ...
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... guy from her church club and married him . They'll probably have seven kids , if he makes it through . He's a second ... guys , lotsa luck . " What can I say ? Same to you pal ? Dawn is starting to show , but the sun isn't up yet , and ...
... guy from her church club and married him . They'll probably have seven kids , if he makes it through . He's a second ... guys , lotsa luck . " What can I say ? Same to you pal ? Dawn is starting to show , but the sun isn't up yet , and ...
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... guys seem to think so . The thick , bright - red piece of tape runs in an angular roundabout way to Paris . Actually , it runs to Chartres , southwest of the city , then to Melun to the southeast and then back on a heading of about 350 ...
... guys seem to think so . The thick , bright - red piece of tape runs in an angular roundabout way to Paris . Actually , it runs to Chartres , southwest of the city , then to Melun to the southeast and then back on a heading of about 350 ...
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afternoon Air Force altitude asked barrage Beachy Head began Berlin bomb bay bomb run bombardier box barrage called chow clouds coast-out Colonel Bowman combat commander contrails copilot course Deenethorpe drawing dropped Dümmer Eighth Air Force Elizabeth English eyes feet fighters flak suit flying formation front German going gotten Groesbeek guns guys Hamburg hand hardstand head intercom interrogation Jardine John Jonckheere Kettering kids killed Landscape lead box Leipzig Lewis light Lispeth Lockhart look Ludwigshafen Luftwaffe Mercator Merseburg miles minutes mission Montbartier Münster navigator Neumünster Nienburg North Sea nose bowl officer Okay Peenemünde Pen & Sword pilot plane Porter Ham pretty Pyles remember Robert Grilley runway Russell Saint-Lô seemed shot of Irish smoke squadron strike photo sure target tell things took tracking flak turn wind Wing Winsor & Newton Yokehill Farm