Pappy S War A B 17 Gunner S World War Ii Memoir
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Pappy S War A B 17 Gunner S World War Ii Memoir
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Author : John "Pappy" Paris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-08-27
Pappy S War A B 17 Gunner S World War Ii Memoir written by John "Pappy" Paris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-27 with categories.
Memoir by a B-17 top turret gunner of the 600th Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group, Eighth Air Force, shot down, POW. 42 photos and illus., 2 appendices. Contents: "Big Ass Bird"; "Greetings..."; England; Hamburg-First Blood; Big "B", Berlin, June 21, 1944; Milk Run; London Town; The Red Lion; Toulouse; Mayday (M'daidez); Bailout; Dulag Luft, Frankfurt; Kriegie; The Black March; Escape; Back Up, Joe!; 398th Bombardment Group (H); Boeing B-17G "Flying Fortress" Flies Again in the Markings of the 398th Bomb Group.
Pappy S War
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Author : John Paris
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2012-02-11
Pappy S War written by John Paris and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-11 with categories.
Merriam Press Military Monograph 17. Fifth Edition (February 2012). This story is about the author's experiences while serving as an enlisted man in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. It is a condensed narrative of his training in the States, and his experiences in the Eighth Air Force in wartime England in early 1944. While with the Eighth he participated in some of the greatest air battles ever fought. These included bombing raids over Hamburg, Berlin and Leipzig along with other lesser-known targets. His B-17 sustained grievous damage while on a "milk run" over France, and later was shot down while raiding the great industrial city of Leipzig located deep in the eastern part of Germany. Then his narration recounts the trials and tribulations of his bailout, capture, interrogation, and confinement in Stalag-Luft IV. This prisoner of war camp was located in the province of Pomerania, in north central Germany, that is now part of Poland. He was known as "Kriegsgefagen der Luftwaffe" #3057. Incarcerated there for a period of six months, he relates the story of his life as a prisoner of the Germans. Late in the war, as the Russians were driving into Poland, and threatening to encircle their place of confinement, they were marched west in the dead of winter with little food or shelter, for a total of seventy days. It was the worst winter in northern Europe since such records were kept, as attested by the severe weather encountered by our troops during the Battle of the Bulge. While on this march, along with three others, he escaped. After three weeks, and many adventures later, they broke into the British battle lines near Hanover. Relive John's odyssey as a member of a B-17 crew of the 600th Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group, Eighth Air Force. Contents: Dedication; Acknowledgments; Preface; "Big Ass Bird"; England; Hamburg; First Blood; Big "B"; Milk Run; London Town; Red Lion Inn; Toulouse; Mayday (M'daidez); Bailout; Frankfurt; Kriegie; Black March; Escape; Back Up, Joe; 398th Bombardment Group (H); Boeing B-17G "Flying Fortress" Flies Again in the Markings of the 398th Bomb Group; 42 photos and illustrations.
Pappy S War
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Author : John "Pappy" Paris Paris (author)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1901
Pappy S War written by John "Pappy" Paris Paris (author) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1901 with categories.
Pappy S War
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Author : John Paris
language : en
Publisher: Merriam Press
Release Date : 2000-10
Pappy S War written by John Paris and has been published by Merriam Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10 with Airmen categories.
Pow 3959
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Author : Ralph E. Sirianni
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-09-17
Pow 3959 written by Ralph E. Sirianni and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-17 with History categories.
In January 1943, not long after his nineteenth birthday, Ralph Sirianni was drafted for active duty by the U.S. Army. Ordered to the European Theatre of Operations in February 1944, Sgt. Sirianni served as the right waist gunner on a B-17. On his seventh mission over Germany, the plane--severely damaged by German fighters--crashed near Wildeshausen. With shrapnel in his legs and shoulder, Sirianni bailed out, and he spent the following 15 months in the infamous Stalag Luft I prisoner of war camp. This memoir offers harrowing stories of combat, including detailed descriptions of each of Sirianni's combat missions; reveals the horrors of confinement and the despair of skin-of-the-teeth survival; and remembers camaraderie in the face of German abuse. Valuable for its vivid account of aerial warfare and imprisonment, this memoir is also a story of postwar reconciliation, both psychological and social. Appendices offer excerpts from Sirianni's POW log book and pilot George McFall's firsthand account of the ill-fated final mission.
Crew One
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Author : Dennis Scranton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-11-30
Crew One written by Dennis Scranton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-30 with History categories.
The wartime memoir by a radar operator/gunner aboard a PB4Y-2 Privateer of Patrol Bombing Squadron VPB-108 in the Pacific, stationed at Hawaii, Kwajalein, Truk, Tinian, Peleliu, and Iwo Jima, flying missions as far as the Japanese home islands. "This is another long overdue book on an aircraft people didn't even know existed. A very good read." -Dick Helling. 38 photos. A Merriam Press World War II Autobiography.
Operation Thunderclap And The Black March
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Author : Richard Allison
language : en
Publisher: Casemate
Release Date : 2014-10-29
Operation Thunderclap And The Black March written by Richard Allison and has been published by Casemate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This unique dual biography chronicles the WWII experiences of two US airmen, one of whom was captured by Nazis, while the other bombed Germany. In February 1945, the Allies launched Operation Thunderclap, a series of maximum efforts against cities in eastern Germany. These deep-penetration raids would tax the bomber crews immensely, as well as bring new devastation to cities yet untouched by US airpower. Meanwhile, the Nazis attempted to move all their prisoners beyond the reach of the Soviet Army’s advancing spearheads, forcing thousands of Allied POWs on a five-hundred-mile, three-month trek that would come to be known as the Black March. Two B-17 crew members, a copilot and gunner, trained together in Gulfport, MS, and, in Fall 1944, were assigned to the longest-serving and most decorated US bomb group in England. However, their paths then diverged. The copilot flew thirty-one missions until the war’s end; the gunner was shot down and captured on his very first combat mission. These crew members both lived—one through Thunderclap and one through the Black March—and this is their story: an account of both constant air combat and travail on the ground. The copilot participated in the bombing of Dresden, where he witnessed a city already too far destroyed to expend additional bombs. The gunner survived the March, and once time was up for Germany, experienced a period in Soviet captivity. This unique book on the Allied air campaign offers new insights into what our fliers truly saw and experienced during the war.
Tales Of A Tail Gunner
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Author : Eddie Picardo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996-06-01
Tales Of A Tail Gunner written by Eddie Picardo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-06-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Blueberry Pie
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Author : Otis Pease
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2007
Blueberry Pie written by Otis Pease and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Otis Pease, World War II veteran and retired history professor, offers his own blend of World War II memoir plus analysis of theories about what motivated soldiers to fight the war. The book includes the extensive diary Pease kept, from basic training to fighting from a foxhole on the front lines in Germany, to recovery from wounds (including trench foot) in a military hospital in England, then reassignment to an Air Force B-17 Bomber Base, and finally, his wait for one of the Victory ships to bring him home to pursue his college education courtesy of the GI Bill.
One Of Thousands A Navigator In The European Air War
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Author : Frederick Fooy
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2015-04-06
One Of Thousands A Navigator In The European Air War written by Frederick Fooy and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-06 with History categories.
Jules "Julie" Lasner volunteered for service after the United States entered World War II, and he was trained as a navigator in a B-17 Flying Fortress. Lasner flew twenty-seven missions over occupied Europe during the final phases of a strategic bombing campaign against Germany, dodging the Luftwaffe's anti-aircraft defenses in the cold, wintry skies. Based on interviews with Lasner as well as his wartime correspondence, this book offers a glimpse into his experiences as a member of the 8th Air Force. Along with thousands of others, he pounded the Third Reich around the clock in a four-engine bomber over the last eight months of the war. This account offers an insider's look into the state of the German air defenses as well as some of the effects of the strategic bomb offensive. Lasner's story shows that one person's experiences and decisions affect many people, and it also reveals how he was affected by total war. Go beyond the statistics that so often dehumanize conflict with One of Thousands.