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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Preface; Foreword by Michael Bess; 1. Captain R.M. Benson; 2. Lieutenant Bill Jernigan; 3. Lieutenant Mandell Cypress; 4. Lieutenant Charles Jackson; 5. Captain Beecher Bilbrey; 6. Sergeant Bob Rourke; 7. Lieutenant Jim White; 8. Lieutenant Thomas French; 9. Sergeant Jim DeMontbreun; 10. Captain Bush Cole; 11. Sergeant Leonard Mika; 12. Captain Bob Gregg; 13. Lieutenant Harry Williams, Jr.; 14. Captain Bill Reeder; 15. Lieutenant Tom Graves; 16. Captain Bill Becker; 17. Sergeant David Oldashi; 18. Lieutenant Roy Buck; 19. Sergeant Bud Reeder |
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20. Major Clarence Evans21. Sergeant John Katz; 22. Lieutenant Bill Rickman; 23. Lieutenant John McGonagle; 24. Lieutenant Art Driscoll; 25. Lieutenant Myron King; 26. Lieutenant Don Peterson; 27. Captain Al Suedekum; 28. Lieutenant John Lechleiter; 29. Sergeant Bernard Sanderson; 30. Sergeant Charles Whitehead; 31. Lieutenant Arvid Shulenberger; 32. Sergeant Bill Roberts; 33. Lieutenant Bob Smartt; 34. Captain J.O. Grizzell; 35. Captain Robert Fesmire; 36. Sergeant Bill Jones; 37. Lieutenant Ben Ernst; 38. Captain J. Ivan Potts, Jr.; 39. Sergeant Bill Eastland; 40. Lieutenant Bob Chambers |
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41. Lieutenant Jim Kirtland42. Sergeant John Cunningham; 43. Major John Kolemba; 44. Major Cooper Schley; 45. Lieutenant Jack Downey; 46. Sergeant Robert Howell, Jr.; 47. Sergeant Robert Sheehan; 48. Lieutenant Bob Cartwright; 49. Lieutenant Jerry Neal; 50. Lieutenant Bob Elliott; 51. Lieutenant Eino Latvala; 52. Sergeant George Shreeve; 53. Lieutenant Mark Osborne; 54. Lieutenant W.C. Gibson; 55. Major Calvin Fite; Index |
| Summary |
Air warfare was a decisive component of World War II, especially in western Europe and over Japan, where Allied bombers damaged 66 of the country's largest cities. The guts and glory of the bomber crews came, however, with a high casualty rate which had only improved marginally by the war's end. Descriptions of the bombers' harrowing missions told from the firsthand perspective of their pilots, navigators, bombardiers and gunners create the immediacy of a single person's experience during one of America's most daring military expeditions. A short biography of each veteran accompanies these tal |
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Includes index |
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Vendor-supplied metadata |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Military operations, Aerial -- American
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| Genre/Form |
Personal narratives
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Griggs, Alan L., 1950- author.
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| ISBN |
9781476616186 |
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1476616183 |
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1322871833 |
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9781322871837 |
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