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Author: Arthur Stanley Gould LeePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 233
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No Parachute. A Fighter Pilot in World War I. Letters Written in 1917 ... Edited by the Same Writer Arthur Gould Lee. [With Plates, Including Portraits.].
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Author: Arthur Stanley Gould LeePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 233
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No Parachute
Author: Arthur Gould LeePublisher: Grub Street Publishers
ISBN: 1909808679
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
This account of the Great War puts you right in the action—from one of the fighter pilots of the Royal Flying Corps. From the young airmen who took their frail machines high above the trenches of World War I and fought their foes in single combat, there emerged a renowned company of brilliant aces—among them Ball, Bishop, McCudden, Collishaw, and Mannock—whose legendary feats have echoed down half a century. But behind the elite pilots in the Royal Flying Corps, there were many hundreds of airmen who flew their hazardous daily sorties in outdated planes without ever achieving fame. Here is the story of one of these unknown flyers—a story based on letters written in the day, telling of a young pilot’s progress from fledgling to seasoned fighter. His descriptions of air fighting, sometimes against the Richthofen Circus, of breathless dogfights between Sopwith Pup and Albatros, are among the most vivid and immediate to come out of World War I. Arthur Gould Lee, who rose to the rank of air vice-marshal and also authored the classic Open Cockpit, brilliantly conveys the immediacy of air war, the thrills and the terror, in this honest and timeless account.
No Parachute: a Fighter Pilot in World War I
Author: Arthur Stanley Gould LeePublisher: Arrow
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
No Parachute
Author: Arthur Gould LeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Beskrivelse af luftoperationer under 1. verdenskrig
No Parachute
Author: Arthur Gould LeeNo Parachute
Author: Arthur Stanley Gould LeePublisher: Time Life Education
ISBN: 9780809496129
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
No Parachute
Author: Arthur Stanley Gould LeePublisher:
ISBN: 9781909166042
Category : Fighter pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Behind the elite of renowned young airmen who fought in World War I were many hundreds of other airmen who flew their harzardous sorties without ever achieving fame. This is the story of one of these flyers - a story based on letters telling the story of his progress from fledgling to seasoned fighter.
Open Cockpit
Author: Arthur Gould LeePublisher: Grub Street Publishers
ISBN: 1909808830
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A riveting firsthand account of training for—and surviving—air combat during World War I, by the author of No Parachute. Thanks to a broken leg during flight school, Arthur Gould Lee gained valuable time flying trainers before he was posted in France during World War I. In November 1917 during low-level bombing and strafing attacks, he was shot down three times by ground fire. He spent eight months at the front and accumulated 222 hours of flight time in Sopwith Pups and Camels during a staggering 118 patrols, and engaged in combat 56 times. And yet he lived to retire from the RAF as an air vice-marshal in 1946. Lee puts you in the cockpit in this compelling personal account of life as a fighter pilot at the front. At turns humorous and dramatic, this thoughtful, enlightening memoir is a classic of military aviation.
The Final Mission of Bottoms Up
Author: Dennis R. OkerstromPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826272673
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
On November 18, 1944, the end of the war in Europe finally in sight, American copilot Lieutenant Lee Lamar struggled alongside pilot Randall Darden to keep Bottoms Up, their B-24J Liberator, in the air. They and their crew of eight young men had believed the intelligence officer who, at the predawn briefing at their base in southern Italy, had confided that their mission that day would be a milk run. But that twenty-first mission out of Italy would be their last. Bottoms Up was staggered by an antiaircraft shell that sent it plunging three miles earthward, the pilots recovering control at just 5,000 feet. With two engines out, they tried to make it to a tiny strip on a British-held island in the Adriatic Sea and in desperation threw out everything not essential to flight: machine guns, belts of ammunition, flak jackets. But over Pula, in what is now Croatia, they were once more hit by German fire, and the focus quickly became escaping the doomed bomber. Seemingly unable to extricate himself, Lamar all but surrendered to death before fortuitously bailing out. He was captured the next day and spent the rest of the war as a prisoner at a stalag on the Baltic Sea, suffering the deprivations of little food and heat in Europe’s coldest winter in a century. He never saw most of his crew again. Then, in 2006, more than sixty years after these life-changing experiences, Lamar received an email from Croatian archaeologist Luka Bekic, who had discovered the wreckage of Bottoms Up. A veteran of the Balkan wars of the 1990s, Bekic felt compelled to find out the crew’s identities and fates. Lee Lamar, a boy from a hardscrabble farm in rural northwestern Missouri, had gone to college on the GI Bill, become a civil engineer, gotten married, and raised a family. Yet, for all the opportunity that stemmed from his wartime service, part of him was lost. The prohibition on asking prisoners of war their memories during the repatriation process prevented him from reconciling himself to the events of that November day. That changed when, nearly a year after being contacted by Bekic, Lamar visited the site, hoping to gain closure, and met the Croatian Partisans who had helped some members of his crew escape. In this absorbing, alternating account of World War II and its aftermath, Dennis R. Okerstrom chronicles, through Lee Lamar’s experiences, the Great Depression generation who went on to fight in the most expensive war in history. This is the story of the young men who flew Bottoms Up on her final mission, of Lamar’s trip back to the scene of his recurring nightmare, and of a remarkable convergence of international courage, perseverance, and friendship.
Air Force Combat Units of World War II
Author: Maurer MaurerPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428915850
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description