Download or read book Rambling Memories of a World War II Fighter Pilot written by Doug McLaughlin and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is your Financial Briefcase? Your Financial Briefcase is a very basic workbook to help organize your financial life. This all-encompassing notebook will assist you in understanding and simplifying your financial affairs. Why should you complete this Financial Briefcase? How will it simplify your life? What will you use it for? · See where you are spending your money · Find expenditures you can eliminate so you can create savings · Feel organized · Make planning easy · Use it when applying for credit or any other financial transaction You want to gain control of your financial situation. You do not know where to start. You need someone to give you the tools to take control of your financial path. Well, here it is, all for you. Take this workbook, complete it and change your life!
Download or read book An Ace and His Angel written by Herbert Brooks Hatch and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story was written by Herbert Brooks Hatch, Jr., one of America's living Fighter Pilot Aces from World War II. Hatch flew a P-38 with the 71st Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, out of Salsola, Italy. Except for a brief deployment to Corsice to cover the invasion of Southern France, he flew his 59 missions out of Foggia #3. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with 11 Oak Leaf Clusters. In his first book, An Ace and His Angel: Memoirs of a WWII Fighter Pilot, Hatch writes of the heroes and hardships endured by veterans of the Army Air Force.
Download or read book On A Wing and A Prayer written by Fmj Pacheco and published by . This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tales of our fathers (and mothers, sometimes) in war may be the most important legacy ever left us. These "war stories" told by our parents on warm summer evenings haunt many of us to this day. They are warnings, a cry in the dark to future generations they may never know. The following pages are the autobiographical accounts of my parents in World War II. My father was a fighter pilot and my mother an evac nurse in the ETO 1944-45. These are the very human accounts of that most inhuman experience.
Download or read book Thunderbolt written by Marvin V. Bledsoe and published by Van Nostrand Reinhold (International) University & College. This book was released on 1982 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soul Survivor written by Andrea Leininger and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of James Leininger, who-- a little more than two weeks after his second birthday-- began having blood-curdling nightmares that just would not stop. When James began screaming out recurring phrases like, "Plane on fire! Little man can't get out!" the Leiningers finally admitted that they truly had to take notice. When details of planes and war tragedies no two-year-old boy could know continued-- even in stark daylight-- Bruce and Andrea Leininger began to realize that this was an incredible situation. SOUL SURVIVOR is the story of how the Leiningers pieced together what their son was communicating and eventually discovered that he was reliving the past life of World War II fighter pilot James Huston. As Bruce Leininger struggled to understand what was happening to his son, he also uncovered details of James Huston's life-- and death-- as a pilot that will fascinate military buffs everywhere. In SOUL SURVIVOR, we are taken for a gripping ride as the Leiningers' belief system is shaken to the core, and both of these families come to know a little boy who, against all odds and even in the face of true skeptics, harbors the soul of this man who died long ago.
Download or read book Big Friend Little Friend written by Richard E. Turner and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om oplevelser under 2. verdenskrig og lidt om forfatterens deltagelse i Koreakrigen.
Download or read book Look Mom I Can Fly written by Robert Vrilakas and published by Amethyst Moon. This book was released on 2012 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1920s the sound of airplane motors would cause the entire inhabitants of author Robert "Smoky" Vrilakas' small Northern California village to dash outside to look up at the sky. Overhead would be a Ford Trimotor passenger plane droning off toward some unknown destination, a sight almost as awesome then as watching a manned satellite pass over in space today. The author, then a young boy, thought those who flew airplanes had to be super humans, far beyond anything he could ever even dream of doing. Later, in the midst of the Great Depresssion, Smoky Vrilakas' life took a sudden, sweeping turn. Six months prior to the December Pearl Harbor attack and at only 22 years old, Smoky was drafted into the army in preparation for an expected major war. Look, Mom-I Can Fly! takes you through the author's Army infantry training and his Army Air Corp flight training. You will share Smoky's experience in learning to fly the Army's top fighter airplane of the time: the P-38 "Lightning." In mid-1943 you will travel with him and 65 other P-38 volunteer classmates to North Africa and Italy. There, as a member of the famed "Hat in the Ring" squadron, you will accompany him on 51 combat missions against the German Luftwaffe and Italian Air Force in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations. All of the combat missions carried considerable risk. Some came very close to being Smoky's last. Meet some of Smoky's fellow P-38 pilots and learn about the everyday life of a fighter pilot of that era. This story confirms that determination and the will to meet a goal are the primary ingredients for success in any endeavor.
Download or read book Brave and Funny Memories of WWII written by Lyndon Shubert and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lyndon Shubert, awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and other medals, had a varied career. He was a writer-actor in early classic television and acted on Broadway with Spencer Tracy. Pioneer of the teleprompter industry, he taught three presidents, as well as actors Orson Wells and Ronald Regan, how to use the new gadget. Lynn wrote and produced movie scripts about the young Marilyn Monroe, and was published in the magazine Aviation History. He later became a successful executive known all around the world as President of the International Theater Equipment Association. After retirement he was a popular guest speaker at the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, CA, and other places where fans of aviation history gathered. Lyndon's sassy sense of humor animates the memories he shares with you."--
Download or read book Memoirs of a WWII Fighter Pilot and Some Modern Political Commentary written by Ken Thompson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a recounting of some of the experiences I had while serving in the Army and Army Air Corps during WWII. The events are as accurate as I could recall without embellishment. I took the pictures of Don Lawless and Gene Van Houten in Don Woerpel's book, The 79th Fighter Group. This is an expanded version of my original book, "Memoirs of Ken Thompson, A WWII Fighter Pilot." I have also added my views on some of the issues facing our society.
Download or read book World War II written by Robert R. Burch and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of a young B-17 pilot and his experiences leading up to military service, training, combat and after service. Anecdotes, stories, photographs included.
Download or read book Flights of Passage written by Samuel Hynes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping, literary recollection of a pilot's experiences during WWII.
Download or read book A True Flyer Memories of a World War II Air Apache written by Senath Rankin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir of WWII B-25 pilot Jay Moore, member of the 345th Bomb Group, known as the Air Apaches. The book chronicles the first twenty-four years of his life (1921-45) from growing up on a farm in Biggsville, Illinois, through the deprivations of the 1930's Depression, to his combat duty in the South Pacific. A True Flyer combines Moore's oral history, photos, and excerpts from his diary and love letters into a funny, colorful, sometimes brash narrative. Enjoy the military aviation history of WWII flyers: from his solo in the Boeing PT-17 "Stearman" biplane, advanced training in the T-6 "Texan," and North American B-25 "Mitchell" bomber on bases in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina. This second edition contains new photographs and a memorial to the author.
Download or read book Memories of a Combat Fighter Pilot written by Dale R. Deniston and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Flew for the Fuhrer written by Heinz Knocke and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Reading like a novel, this primary source is a valuable look at the ‘other side’ of World War II aviation.”—Gazette665 Heinz Knoke was one of the outstanding German fighter pilots of World War II and this vivid first-hand record of his experiences has become a classic among aviation memoirs, a bestselling counterbalance to the numerous accounts written by Allied pilots. Knoke joined the Luftwaffe on the outbreak of war, and eventually became commanding officer of a fighter wing. An outstandingly brave and skillful fighter, he logged over two thousand flights, and shot down fifty-two enemy aircraft. He had flown over four hundred operational missions before being crippled by wounds in an astonishing ‘last stand’ towards the end of the war. He was awarded the Knight’s Cross for his achievements. In a text that reveals his intense patriotism and discipline, he describes being brought up in the strict Prussian tradition, the impact of the coming of the Nazi regime, and his own wartime career set against a fascinating study of everyday life in the Luftwaffe, and of the high morale of the force until its disintegration. In a postscript provided for this edition, Heinz Knoke writes of the struggle to survive after the war in Germany, and his building of a new life. Now that the Berlin Wall has been torn down, his memoirs are set in a new perspective, both a valuable contribution to aviation literature and a moving human story.
Download or read book Young Man You ll Never Die written by Merton Naydler and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2006-06-20 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A British Royal Air Force pilot recounts fighting over African deserts and Asian jungles during World War II in this military memoir. Merton Naydler joined the RAF at the age of nineteen and served for the next six years until May 1946. He flew Spitfires and Hurricanes during a tour of duty that took him to North Africa, Burma, and Malaya. This well written and extremely entertaining memoir portrays wartime life in the desert environment where sand, flies, life under canvas made living and flying a daunting experience. When Naydler was posted to Burma he was filled with “a deep and genuine dread.” After a long uncomfortable trip, he joined 11 Squadron and was then faced with Japanese Zeroes in combat over dense tropical jungle rather than Bf 109s over a barren desert terrain. “Daytime flying was hot as hell, the humidity intense”—the author’s description of his new posting that goes on to describe life in “Death Valley,” named because of the likeliness of falling victim to tropical disease rather than enemy aircraft . . . This is the story of a sergeant pilot who learned his trade the hard way in action over Africa and then honed his combat skills in the skies over Japanese-held tropical forests where he was eventually commissioned.
Download or read book Missions Remembered written by Middle Tennessee WWII Fighter Pilots Association and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1998 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bailouts to belly landings, flaming cockpits to lurching carrier decks, here are the heoic tales of pilots from all backgrounds, united by a desire to fight their country's enemy to the finish. Drawn from a small corner of Tennessee, these men flew in all theatres of combat, in every front-line fighter aircraft. They soared to victory in the air--and fled from capture on the ground. This is a memorable anthhology of combat tales with great appeal both for veterans and historians.
Download or read book Abandoned at Leyte written by Doy H. Duncan and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although raised on a farm in southwest Arkansas during the Great Depression, Doy Duncan, like many young boys of that time, dreamed of flying. Through hard work and perseverance, Duncan went to college, where he took primary Civilian Pilot Training. He then joined the U.S. Navy and completed secondary CPT in Conway, Arkansas, while waiting to be called to active duty. In November of 1942 he reported to the Naval Preflight School at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. After months of training, Doy Duncan was assigned to the USS Kadashan Bay, CVE-76, to fly the FM-2 Wildcat fighter plane. He saw his first combat in September 1944 as he flew support for the First Marine Division's invasion of the Palau Islands in the Pacific. He would be shot down a month later in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Abandoned at Leyte is Duncan's story of courage and survival as a World War II Wildcat pilot.
