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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... nose down into a steep dive . It plunged behind some buildings in the middle distance , emitting an earsplitting blast and seismic shudder , followed by great clouds of black smoke that rose in billowing hemispheres . Of course we ran ...
... nose down into a steep dive . It plunged behind some buildings in the middle distance , emitting an earsplitting blast and seismic shudder , followed by great clouds of black smoke that rose in billowing hemispheres . Of course we ran ...
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... in the North Sea . The light moves on , and the patronizing voice whispers again , to someone else , " Sir , it's time . " My nose-bowl comrade, bombardier John Jardine, mumbles something in early-morning. Paris in June: The First Mission.
... in the North Sea . The light moves on , and the patronizing voice whispers again , to someone else , " Sir , it's time . " My nose-bowl comrade, bombardier John Jardine, mumbles something in early-morning. Paris in June: The First Mission.
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... nose. He grunts and sucks in a deep breath and, with his back to me, says, “Hey, Robert, I've been thinking about it; have you considered resigning and going back to Biloxi? Sort of disgraceful, but it'd be good to be a leftover. This ...
... nose. He grunts and sucks in a deep breath and, with his back to me, says, “Hey, Robert, I've been thinking about it; have you considered resigning and going back to Biloxi? Sort of disgraceful, but it'd be good to be a leftover. This ...
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