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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... slightly simple . However , in the unlikely event that such a notion ever occurred to her , it would have been fleeting , and as things came into focus for me , I was assured that she considered me to be a future prodigy . Of course ...
... slightly simple . However , in the unlikely event that such a notion ever occurred to her , it would have been fleeting , and as things came into focus for me , I was assured that she considered me to be a future prodigy . Of course ...
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... slight touch of genetics ( Gregor Mendel's sweet peas ) , primitive by modern standards , but mind - opening . I found teachers who still come back to me . Among them was Helen C. White , for whom the library of the University of ...
... slight touch of genetics ( Gregor Mendel's sweet peas ) , primitive by modern standards , but mind - opening . I found teachers who still come back to me . Among them was Helen C. White , for whom the library of the University of ...
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... slightly ahead of my narrative , so let me get back to living conditions in a Nissen . The beds and mattresses seemed substantial , but there was only a vague promise of bedding as it turned out , available primarily through a casual ...
... slightly ahead of my narrative , so let me get back to living conditions in a Nissen . The beds and mattresses seemed substantial , but there was only a vague promise of bedding as it turned out , available primarily through a casual ...
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... slightly- threadbare aristocrats of the military, better off by far than the mud-spattered grunts in the infantry. In my case, a little comfortable disorder would be preferable to barracks living as a cadet, where a chicken ninety-day ...
... slightly- threadbare aristocrats of the military, better off by far than the mud-spattered grunts in the infantry. In my case, a little comfortable disorder would be preferable to barracks living as a cadet, where a chicken ninety-day ...
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... slight visceral tightening that I've somehow gotten myself caught up in history's biggest fight , and it's going on right now . The voice says it's 3:00 A.M. We're supposed to be daylight raiders - the Brits do the night stuff — so ...
... slight visceral tightening that I've somehow gotten myself caught up in history's biggest fight , and it's going on right now . The voice says it's 3:00 A.M. We're supposed to be daylight raiders - the Brits do the night stuff — so ...
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