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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... hand into neat manuscript on pages and disks ; and often when I'd thought I'd said it right , I tended to change my mind . For this she never seemed to lose patience . And , although they live far away , my daughter Rinelda and son ...
... hand into neat manuscript on pages and disks ; and often when I'd thought I'd said it right , I tended to change my mind . For this she never seemed to lose patience . And , although they live far away , my daughter Rinelda and son ...
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... hands by uniformed ushers to get us out of the place before 5:00 P.M., making way for the twenty-five-cent patrons; then the two block run at full speed to burn some of our joyous, ineluctable energy, and the walk home, giggling and ...
... hands by uniformed ushers to get us out of the place before 5:00 P.M., making way for the twenty-five-cent patrons; then the two block run at full speed to burn some of our joyous, ineluctable energy, and the walk home, giggling and ...
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... hand , and suggests that I try to make an arrangement with Mephistopheles for a day or two of youth , and go with him on one more mission to Merseburg or Berlin , and then , with time and energy left over , do a drawing of Elizabeth on ...
... hand , and suggests that I try to make an arrangement with Mephistopheles for a day or two of youth , and go with him on one more mission to Merseburg or Berlin , and then , with time and energy left over , do a drawing of Elizabeth on ...
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... hand connected with it . " Sir , " the voice says , " time to rise and shine , " and the hand gently nudges my shoulder . Rise and shine . What a damn fool expression ! And get that flashlight off my face . As I come to the surface , I ...
... hand connected with it . " Sir , " the voice says , " time to rise and shine , " and the hand gently nudges my shoulder . Rise and shine . What a damn fool expression ! And get that flashlight off my face . As I come to the surface , I ...
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