Half A Wing Three Engines And A Prayer
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Half A Wing Three Engines And A Prayer
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Author : Brian O'Neill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989-03-01
Half A Wing Three Engines And A Prayer written by Brian O'Neill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-03-01 with categories.
Half A Wing Three Engines And A Prayer
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Author : Brian D. O'Neill
language : en
Publisher: Aero Pub Incorporated
Release Date : 1989-01
Half A Wing Three Engines And A Prayer written by Brian D. O'Neill and has been published by Aero Pub Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-01 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
Half A Wing Three Engines And A Prayer
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Author : Brian D. O'Neill
language : en
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Release Date : 1999-05-21
Half A Wing Three Engines And A Prayer written by Brian D. O'Neill and has been published by McGraw Hill Professional this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-05-21 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Incorporating a wealth of new material, here is the riveting story of the bombing raids that broke the back of Nazi Germany, praised as "a well-researched, highly readable account of a B-17 combat crew's experience ... excellent." (Roger A. Freeman, author of The Mighty Eighth)
The Star In The Window
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Author : Louis C. Langone
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2011-06-21
The Star In The Window written by Louis C. Langone and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-21 with History categories.
When a service banner adorned with stars was displayed in a homes window during World War II, it meant a family member was involved in the war. Some of the soldiers never returned, but those who did come home carried memories and war stories. In The Star in the Window, author Louis C. Langone tells the stories of more than seventy-five WWII veterans who lived in Waterville and Central New York. Langone personally interviewed and listened to more than 100 men and women telling their wartime storiesfrom bombing missions over Europe to the island hopping campaigns of the Pacific to suffering as prisoners of war. The narratives are supplemented with material from books, periodicals, the Internet, press releases, unit histories, and letters, providing a mix of memories and facts. Photographs and community honor rolls are also included. The Star in the Window not only preserves special WWII memories, but also gives insight into the hardships endured and sacrifices made by the veterans of the Central New York area. It provides an opportunity to experience history through the eyes and ears of veterans from the various military branches of service revealing shocking and obscure incidents of the war.
To Kingdom Come
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Author : Robert J. Mrazek
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2011-03-01
To Kingdom Come written by Robert J. Mrazek and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-01 with History categories.
The breathtaking, never-before-told, true story of a historic air force bombing mission in 1943 Germany. On September 6, 1943, three hundred and thirty-eight B-17 "Flying Fortresses" of the American Eighth Air Force took off from England, bound for Stuttgart, Germany, to bomb Nazi weapons factories. Dense clouds obscured the targets, and one commander's critical decision to circle three times over the city—and its deadly flak—would prove disastrous. Forty-five planes went down that day, and hundreds of men were lost or missing. Focusing on first-person accounts of six of the B-17 airmen, award-winning author Robert Mrazek vividly re-creates the fierce air battle—and reveals the astonishing valor of the airmen who survived being shot down, and the tragic fate of those who did not.
American Bomber Crewman 1941 45
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Author : Gregory Fremont-Barnes
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2012-06-20
American Bomber Crewman 1941 45 written by Gregory Fremont-Barnes and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-20 with History categories.
Gregory Fremont-Barnes examines the lives of the American Bomber Crewmen of the Eighth Air Force, 'The Mighty Eighth', who manned, maintained and repaired the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses and the B-24 Liberators that flew from the airfields of England. He highlights the physical and psychological strain placed on these men, who required brute strength to control the aircraft on long bombing missions and extraordinary endurance to fly for hours at 20,000 feet at temperatures below freezing in unpressurised cabins. In addition to this, with Luftwaffe fighters and anti-aircraft fire to contend with, it required incredible skill and some luck to return from a mission unscathed. This book is a fitting tribute to these often uncelebrated heroes who took the war deep into the Third Reich, as well as a fascinating historical account of their experiences.
Secrets In The Sky
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Author : Melinda Rice
language : en
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
Release Date : 2001-02-26
Secrets In The Sky written by Melinda Rice and has been published by Taylor Trade Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-02-26 with Fiction categories.
While her brother is off flying planes for the Air Corps, twelve-year-old Bethany becomes involved with women training with the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS) right in her hometown of Sweetwater, Texas.
The Girl In The Blue Beret
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Author : Bobbie Ann Mason
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-06-28
The Girl In The Blue Beret written by Bobbie Ann Mason and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-28 with Fiction categories.
Inspired by the wartime experiences of her father-in-law, Bobbie Ann Mason has crafted the haunting and profoundly moving story of an American World War II pilot shot down in Occupied Europe, and his wrenching odyssey of discovery, decades later, as he uncovers the truth about those who helped him escape in 1944. At twenty-three, Marshall Stone was a confident, cocksure U.S. flyboy stationed in England, with several bombing raids in a B-17 under his belt. But when enemy fighters forced his plane to crash-land in a Belgian field during a mission to Germany, Marshall had to rely solely on the kindness of ordinary Belgian and French citizens to help him hide from and evade the Nazis. Decades later, restless and at the end of his career as an airline pilot, Marshall returns to the crash site and finds himself drawn back in time, unable to stop thinking about the people who risked their lives to save Allied pilots like him. Most of all, he is obsessed by the girl in the blue beret, a courageous young woman who protected and guided him in occupied Paris. Framed in spellbinding, luminous prose, Marshall’s search for her gradually unfolds, becoming a voyage of discovery that reveals truths about himself and the people he knew during the war. Deeply beautiful and impossible to put down, The Girl in the Blue Beret is an unforgettable story—intimate, affecting, exquisite—of memories, second chances, and one intrepid girl who risked it all for a stranger.
Our Last Mission
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Author : Dawn Trimble Bunyak
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2005-08-01
Our Last Mission written by Dawn Trimble Bunyak and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-01 with History categories.
In this remarkable tale of courage, historian Dawn Trimble Bunyak recounts the experiences of her uncle, Lawrence Pifer, a technical sergeant who survived fourteen months of internment as a prisoner of war in World War II Nazi Germany. A radio operator and ball turret gunner on the American B-17 bomber Slightly Dangerous, Pifer was shot down during a raid on March 4, 1944. As he parachuted from the plummeting plane, Pifer witnessed the deaths of two of his fellow crewmembers. Captured by Nazi soldiers and taken to a series of German Stalag Luft camps, Pifer and other servicemen-mostly in their teens and twenties-endured torture, starvation, disease, and forced marches. When British forces liberated Pifer's group, he pushed his POW experiences deep into the recesses of his mind, not to recall them in detail for decades. Years later, a POW group at a Veterans Administration hospital helped Pifer realize that he was ready to tell his story. After forty hours of interviews with Pifer, Dawn Trimble Bunyak retells the enthralling story of an average enlisted man's struggle to survive in the face of hopelessness, with only his strong faith and pride in country to sustain him. In his foreword, historian Arnold Krammer shows how popular views of the prisoner-of-war experience have changed dramatically over time yet how rare are such first-person accounts as Pifer's. Enhanced by numerous photographs and maps and an appendix of prisoners' poetry, Our Last Mission is one of only a few oral histories that details the daily experiences of one of the 94,000 American POWs in Europe during World War II.
Finish Forty And Home
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Author : Phil Scearce
language : en
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Release Date : 2011
Finish Forty And Home written by Phil Scearce and has been published by University of North Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The true story of the men and missions of the 11th Bombardment Group as it fought alone and unheralded in the South Central Pacific, while America had its eyes on the war in Europe.