Download or read book Casey the Flying Fortress written by Mark Farina and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of a young man from Chicago who becomes a copilot of a bomber in Europe during World War IIfrom training, to the assembly of his B-17 crew, the mens struggles after becoming prisoners of war, and the discovery some sixty years later of details his surviving family and fellow crew members never knew.
Download or read book My Bombsight View of Wwii written by Casey Hasey and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casey Hasey takes you onboard as you live the life of flying in a B-26 Bomber through death defying missions where on some days many did not return. Experience the thrill of D-Day, the Little Blitz, the war through occupied France and into Hitlers Germany. Both on the ground with the locals finding ways to survive and in the air, Casey makes you feel like you are right there beside him. This book should be a movie, it has everything.
Download or read book Norfolk and Western Magazine written by Norfolk and Western Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Mo Time written by James J. Lynch and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Mo' Time is the story of one crew's 35 Strategic Bombing Missions in a B-17 Flying Fortress during World War II. The Details of the missions I describe are from a diary I kept. Some details I have omitted. I am not a prude in any way, but men living on the brink of death act differently than in their normal lifestyle. Therefore, this is rather a story - the fears, the laughter, the tears - of men who fought a war.
Download or read book B 17 Flying Fortress Units of the Eighth Air Force part 2 written by Martin Bowman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-20 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Boeing B-17, which has come to epitomise the American war effort in Europe, took the fight to Germans from the late summer of 1942 through to VE-Day. Its primary operator in Western Europe was the 'Mighty Eighth', who controlled 27 bomb groups for much of the war. This second of two volumes covers the 14 Bomb Groups of the Third Air Division. First hand accounts, period photography, profile artworks and nose art scrap views bring to life aircraft from each of the groups within the Third Air Division.
Download or read book The Bakers Creek Air Crash written by Robert S. Cutler and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unique feature of this book, and the tragic accident it documents, is not simply the number of deaths but, rather, the extraordinary loss that occurred to so many American families simultaneously and how important it is that people in Australia and America have ensured that this historic incident is long remembered.
Download or read book Fortress Against The Sun written by Gene E. Salecker and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most often remembered for its role in the air war against Germany, no book has ever before been devoted to the B-17's Pacific operations. The author combines technical and operational detail with eyewitness accounts by crews and commanders to present a fascinating account of a famous aircraft at war.
Download or read book World War II the Encyclopedia of the War Years 1941 1945 written by Norman Polmar and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative and comprehensive survey features over 2,400 entries. Subjects range from battles, soldiers, and military activities to politics, culture, and the Holocaust. Enlivened by 85 illustrations, its panoramic perspective encompasses WWII's enduring influences on the American way of life. "A unique and valuable look at the war."—General James Doolittle
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Download or read book America s Worst Aviation Disaster in Australia written by Robert S. Cutler and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Batchelor Field, near Darwin, an American Flying Fortress lies broken with over 1,100 shrapnel and bullet holes in her skin. This war-torn, B-17C bomber has already performed sterling service in the air battle over the Philippines. Stripped of her heavy armament, she is made ready for transport duty to the beleaguered Aussie Diggers along the northern coast of New Guinea. In March 1943, she begins daily transport service, ferrying American GIs from the jungle battlefields of New Guinea to the US Army Rest Area in Mackay, Qld, for R&R leave. On June 14, 1943, she takes off from Mackay Airport on her final, tragic flight. Revised edition published as Australia’s Worst Aviation Disaster in 2014 Australia and America’s Worst Aviation Disaster in Australia in the United States of America.
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