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Author: Craig A. Kleinsmith Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476683298 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 226
Book Description
For three years, Staff Sergeant Charles M. Eyer served as a B-17 ball turret gunner over Europe during World War II. Based in part on a secret journal he kept as a prisoner of war, this book records Eyer's firsthand account of his harrowing 59 combat missions (B-17 crewmen could not expect to survive 10), his escape from a burning B-17 deep inside Germany, the horrors of confinement in a Nazi POW camp, and his survival of an 80-day forced march during the brutal winter of 1944-45.
Author: Craig A. Kleinsmith Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476683298 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 226
Book Description
For three years, Staff Sergeant Charles M. Eyer served as a B-17 ball turret gunner over Europe during World War II. Based in part on a secret journal he kept as a prisoner of war, this book records Eyer's firsthand account of his harrowing 59 combat missions (B-17 crewmen could not expect to survive 10), his escape from a burning B-17 deep inside Germany, the horrors of confinement in a Nazi POW camp, and his survival of an 80-day forced march during the brutal winter of 1944-45.
Author: Craig A. Kleinsmith Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476641153 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 226
Book Description
For three years, Staff Sergeant Charles M. Eyer served as a B-17 ball turret gunner over Europe during World War II. Based in part on a secret journal he kept as a prisoner of war, this book records Eyer's firsthand account of his harrowing 59 combat missions (B-17 crewmen could not expect to survive 10), his escape from a burning B-17 deep inside Germany, the horrors of confinement in a Nazi POW camp, and his survival of an 80-day forced march during the brutal winter of 1944-45.
Author: Dale Aldrich Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books ISBN: 9780761318736 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 172
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Presents the experiences and memories of Dale Aldrich, an American ball turret gunner in World War II, from the day he was drafted through his release from a German POW camp to the end of the war.
Author: R. C. Cline Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1496928954 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 482
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In the fall of 1942, the first year of the war was ending. For young men in Bloomville (Ohio) Township High Schools senior class, school was the last opportunity to be free before graduation, adult responsibility, and manhood. For them and many other young men across the nation, war was about to become a reality, including J. Emerson Krieger. Life was about to turn in a new, dramatic, and uncharted direction. No Mans Sky, by author R.C. Cline, narrates the story of Krieger, a combat flier in World War II. An aerial gunner, he protected his crew and plane with a Browning M-2 machine gun while flying twenty-nine perilous missions over the embattled skies of Germany. Through diaries, letters, photos, and personal records, this memoir chronicles Kriegers service as a waist gunner, the youngest man in his crew. Offering insight into the challenges of war and combat during World War II, No Mans Sky shares the story of Staff Sergeant Krieger and what life was like six miles in the sky in a B-17 bomber. It pays tribute to all of the men and women who have served our country.
Author: Kenneth Cleveland Drinnon Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1465397760 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 127
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Wings of Tru Love author Kenneth C Drinnon joined theUnited States Army Air Force in 1943 and served in theEuropean Theater as a B17 ball-turret gunner with the 8thAir Force, 487th Heavy Bomb Group, and 838th Squadron.He fl ew thirty-four aerial combat missions form October 22,1944 to February 28, 1945 over Nazi, Germany and attainedthe rank of Staff Sergeant before being discharged in 1945.There were several notable bombing missions, includingthe synthetic oil refi neries at Merseberg, Germany andseveral against transportation facilities in support of theArmy ground forces during the Battle of the Bulge, butthe one most remembered by aviators of the 487th BombGroup was December 24, 1944 when General FrederickW. Castle was killed while leading a two thousand planebomber mission for the Eight Air Force and piloting thelead plane of the 487th Bomb Group. Both the 487th BombGroup and the Luftwaffe suffered many casualties duringan aerial gun battle.
Author: John "Pappy" Paris Publisher: ISBN: 9781435757332 Category : Languages : en Pages : 204
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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.
Author: William N Hess Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1782008373 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 196
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Although the Fifteenth Air Force was dismissed as 'minor leaguers' by the Eighth Air Force, strategic bombers from this outfit had done a 'major league' job on Axis targets in southern Europe following its formation in Italy in November 1943. And the heavy bombers employed by the Fifteenth were of course the venerable B-17 and B-24. At its peak strength, the Fifteenth's B-17 force comprised six groups of four squadrons each, all controlled by the 5th Bomb Wing. Having been a part of the Fifteenth Air Force in 1944, author Bill Hess has long been waiting to write a definitive account on 'his air force'.
Author: Gerald A. Meehl Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1504957199 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 146
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This first-person account describes the vivid and compelling World War II experiences of Jack Goetz, who flew twenty-five missions with the 544th Squadron, 384th Bomb Group based at Grafton Underwood, England, in the early stages of the air war over Europe from mid-1943 to early 1944. During his combat tour, he flew on B-17 bombers over German-occupied Europe as a gunner. These were hazardous missions that resulted in high casualty rates among B-17 flight crews. Jack had his share of close calls, including a crash landing in a crippled bomber and a ditching in the English Channel, which resulted in the death of a close friend and crewmate. After completing his combat tour, he volunteered to be a member of the flight crew that took a group of combat correspondents to the Pacific to cover the end of the war in that theater. His B-17 was the second American aircraft to land in Japan just as the war ended, and he was among the first Americans to visit the atomic bomb-blasted city of Hiroshima.
Author: Craig A. Kleinsmith
Author: Craig A. Kleinsmith
Author: Craig A. Kleinsmith
Author: Dale Aldrich
Author: Edward J. Giering
Author: R. C. Cline
Author: Kenneth Cleveland Drinnon
Author: Steve Birdsall
Author: John "Pappy" Paris
Author: William N Hess
Author: Gerald A. Meehl