My Combat Diary With Eighth Air Force B 17s 390th Bomb Group
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My Combat Diary With Eighth Air Force B 17s 390th Bomb Group
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Author : Andrew Anzanos
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2013-03-01
My Combat Diary With Eighth Air Force B 17s 390th Bomb Group written by Andrew Anzanos and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
B-17 "Flying Fortress" Combat Diary of Andy Anzanos, 26 missions, credited with destruction of an ME-110 and damaging an ME-109. Many engine failures and massive rocket attack made for a memorable experience. Loss of all room mates and their aircraft "Liberty Bell-e." Soon after completing his combat missions, Andy was shot down by friendly fire. Also writes of other training experiences. Andy is also a major designer and builder of the 390th Memorial Museum in Tucson, Arizona dedicated to his bomb group.
My Combat Diary With Liberty Bell E
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Author : Andy Anzanos
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
My Combat Diary With Liberty Bell E written by Andy Anzanos and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
Through These Eyes
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Author : T/Sgt. James Lee Hutchinson, Ed.S.
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2005-10-05
Through These Eyes written by T/Sgt. James Lee Hutchinson, Ed.S. and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is the story of Eighth Air Force bombing missions leaving England to blast targets in Hitler's Third Reich in 1944–45. Each clear day, the skies filled with hundreds of B17 Flying Fortress bombers and their escorts crossing the English Channel toward enemy targets protected by anti-aircraft batteries and German fighters waiting to attack the heavy bombers. The skies over the target were filled with black flak appearing to be so thick you could walk on it! The exploding shells filled the space with flying chunks of iron as bombers started their bomb run on the target. We often could hear the flak pelting our plance like a "buckshot" on a tin roof. This flak would often strike a vital part of the plane or wound a member of the crew! Our waist gunner was wounded on our tenth mission!Some missions we could count hundreds of holes in our plane after we landed safely in England! Bombers receiving a direct hit were blown out of the sky and another ten man aircrew was lost. Planes severely damaged had to drop out of formation and face enemy fighters alone unless some of our P-51 or P-47 escort fighters protected them. Bombers disabled or on fire had no choice but to order the crews to bail out. Airmen who survived the parachute jump were captured and placed into German prisoner of war camps (POW). They were classified as "missing in action". Forty-eight photos, some sixty years old are included in this 350 page book to illustrate the story of the author's childhood in the Great Depression through the great air war of World War II. A description of each mission from a sixty year old diary is included. I think you will enjoy the story of a teenage Radio-Gunner's experiences in the Mighty Eighth Air Force.
An Eighth Air Force Combat Diary
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Author : John Alden Clark
language : en
Publisher: First Page Publications
Release Date : 2001
An Eighth Air Force Combat Diary written by John Alden Clark and has been published by First Page Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This excellent guide to insect biology may be used as a sole text or as a supplementary work source for students enrolled in a formal entomological course. It lends itself to use by those in need of a review of the "essentials," as well as agriculture and veterinary students, teachers at the elementary and secondary school level and others wishing to avail themselves to the opportunity to study insects.
35 Missions To Hell And Back
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Author : Charles J "Chuck" Richardson
language : en
Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc
Release Date : 2020-03-07
35 Missions To Hell And Back written by Charles J "Chuck" Richardson and has been published by Page Publishing, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-07 with History categories.
Twenty-plus years in the writing, and for an additional ten years, this gut-wrenching, heartwarming story has been silently biding its time, awaiting a channel for expression. A compelling story of young boys bound by faith, courage, blood, sweat, and tears, and how that bonding created the brave young men they became. Hopefully, all who read this account will feel the deep emotions of terror, disappointment, frustration, laughter, love, peace, and joy experienced by the author during his service as a radioman/gunner on a B17G during World War II. Some of the stories contained in this manuscript have never been published or made public. Stationed in the European Theater of Operations in Framlingham, England, Mr. Richardson, USAAF, 8th AF, 390th Bomb Group (H), 571st Squadron, was the recipient of numerous major awards and citations, including Distinguished Flying Cross; Air Medal with 4 Oak-Leaf Clusters; 2 Presidential Unit Citations; Russian Medal of Victory in the Great Patriotic War (on behalf of Boris Yeltsin); Certificate in Recognition of Contribution/Service in liberating France and participation in the Invasion of Normandy, signed by French Secretary of Defense John-Pierre Messeret; French Jubilee of Liberty Medal; and French Legion of Honor Medal.
Belle Of The Brawl
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Author : Gary A Best
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2011-11-30
Belle Of The Brawl written by Gary A Best and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-30 with History categories.
This wartime biography follows the life of a Second World War B-17 bombardier from the beginning of the war to its conclusion. Based on the 150 letters the airman, Fred Lull, wrote home to his mother, much of the horrors of what he experienced off the wing of his plane, aircraft destroyed, dismemberment by flak, go unshared. Fred did not want his mother to worry and could not tell her: 'I noticed some movement and a flash of light out of the corner of my right eye. The plane that had been flying right next to us had exploded and simply disappeared.' Using the bombardier's combat flight record, research data and interviews of former B-17 crew members, the story unfolds, breaking through the barrier of an unwillingness and inability to tell loved ones of the smell and taste of war.
Flying Against Fate
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Author : S. P. MacKenzie
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Release Date : 2017-08-04
Flying Against Fate written by S. P. MacKenzie and has been published by University Press of Kansas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-04 with History categories.
During World War II, Allied casualty rates in the air were high. Of the roughly 125,000 who served as aircrew with Bomber Command, 59,423 were killed or missing and presumed killed—a fatality rate of 45.5%. With odds like that, it would be no surprise if there were as few atheists in cockpits as there were in foxholes; and indeed, many airmen faced their dangerous missions with beliefs and rituals ranging from the traditional to the outlandish. Military historian S. P. MacKenzie considers this phenomenon in Flying against Fate, a pioneering study of the important role that superstition played in combat flier morale among the Allies in World War II. Mining a wealth of documents as well as a trove of published and unpublished memoirs and diaries, MacKenzie examines the myriad forms combat fliers' superstitions assumed, from jinxes to premonitions. Most commonly, airmen carried amulets or talismans—lucky boots or a stuffed toy; a coin whose year numbers added up to thirteen; counterintuitively, a boomerang. Some performed rituals or avoided other acts, e.g., having a photo taken before a flight. Whatever seemed to work was worth sticking with, and a heightened risk often meant an upsurge in superstitious thought and behavior. MacKenzie delves into behavior analysis studies to help explain the psychology behind much of the behavior he documents—not slighting the large cohort of crew members and commanders who demurred. He also looks into the ways in which superstitious behavior was tolerated or even encouraged by those in command who saw it as a means of buttressing morale. The first in-depth exploration of just how varied and deeply felt superstitious beliefs were to tens of thousands of combat fliers, Flying against Fate expands our understanding of a major aspect of the psychology of war in the air and of World War II.
390th Bomb Group
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Release Date : 1994
390th Bomb Group written by and has been published by Turner Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
The 390th Bombardment Group (H) contained the 568th, 570th, and 571st squadrons.
The 390th Bomb Group Anthology
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Author : Wilbert H. Richarz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
The 390th Bomb Group Anthology written by Wilbert H. Richarz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
Ww Ii We Were There
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Author : T/Sgt. James Lee Hutchinson EdS
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2022-12-08
Ww Ii We Were There written by T/Sgt. James Lee Hutchinson EdS and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
WW II books of 50 or more stories of boys on B-17 Flying Fortress crews, flying deadly missions with the Eighth Air Force in World War II. His writing is based on his teenage combat experiences as a B-17 radio/gunner on twenty combat missions with the 490th Bomb group, diaries and interviews of veterans of various bomb groups. Teenagers who volunteered to fly were trained and went into combat before they could legally vote or buy a drink. They signed up for the Army’s Air Cadet Program and became a part of the greatest air armada in the world. Any of the gunners on a bomber crew were teenagers and twenty-four was the average age of pilots, bombardiers and navigators. Veterans’ diaries give amazing reports of fighter attacks, flak damage and being shot down to become Prisoners of War. They were the youngsters who flew daylight bombing missions in the Mighty Eighth and destroyed Germany’s military and war industry.