Download or read book The Radio Gunner written by Alexander Forbes and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Radio Gunner written by Alexander Forbes and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fictional story of Jim Evans who, at the age of only 6 years old, was inspired by a Memorial Day Parade and his widowed mother's memories, to become a war hero just like his father had been. On leaving school in 1917 he joined the Navy when America entered the Great War and was assigned to destroyers. Thus began his heroic career.

Download or read book The Radio Gunner Etc A Novel written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book WE Came to Fight a War written by Alvin E. Kotler and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WE CAME TO FIGHT A WAR emanates from the heart, mind and memory of 85 year old Al Kotler, who was barely twenty when he climbed onto a fully armed B-17 in the dense, fog filled morning, in Foggia, Italy, having no idea whether he or his fellow crew members would still be alive by afternoon. Yes this is a war story-a war story that takes the reader viscerally through heart pounding moments of aerial combat and the reactions, feelings and reflections that go with it. But as it unfolds, a larger story emerges-the story of an unconscionable wrong inflicted upon one of the Army Air Corps best-a young patriot who had neither the means nor connections to fight back. In the end, this war story evolves to issues beyond forbearance and courage in battle, to larger issues of loyalty, integrity, justice, injustice and a friend and brother's attempt to right a grievous wrong.

Download or read book Radio in Africa written by Elizabeth Gunner and published by James Currey Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radio is 'Africa's medium', with an ability to transcend barriers to access, facilitate political debate and shape identities.

Download or read book We Came to Fight a War written by Jack Flynn and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merriam Press Military Monograph 19.On 15 April 1945, 1st Lt Bill Flynn completed his 25th bombing mission flying a B-17 with the 346th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group. On 25 May 1945, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for “extraordinary achievement" in combat. In July of that same year, at a General Court Martial, he was accused of “buzzing,” convicted of manslaughter and the destruction of government property. People were intimidated and encouraged to lie and 20-year-old Lt Flynn was stripped of his rank and benefits, dishonorably discharged, and sentenced to hard labor at a Federal Prison in New York. This book was written by Lt Flynn's radio gunner, Al Kotler, and Bill's brother, Jack Flynn. You will meet Bill, Al, and the rest of their crew, and fly with them on missions out of Foggia, Italy. Bill is no longer here to defend himself, so Al and Jack combined forces to present the full story of what really happened and to right a terrible wrong. Contents:ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; DEDICATION; PROLOGUE; Chapter 1: AL'S STORY: The Italian Alps; The Early Years; Pre-Flight; Radio and Gunnery; OTU (Operational Training Unit) Al Meets Bill and the Crew; Off To Italy; Chapter 2: THE WAR: Back to the Alps; Were We on Schindler's List?; The Importance of Ice Cream;Reflections; A Day at the Beach or What?; The Tuskegee Guys; The Missions that Weren't; Chapter 3: WALTER … OR WHO PEED ON MY TURRET?:O'Neil's .50 Caliber Oops; Heads Up … or Out; Moe; The Milk Run; Anoxia, or the Little Red Bead; R & R: The Isle of Capri; The Blue Grotto; “Old Folks”; Chapter 4: THE TRANSITION: Just a Dog?; Chapter 5: POST WAR: Not Here. Not Now; The Pursuit of Happiness; Discharged; Getting My Life Together Again; Surprised, Shocked and Outraged; Changes; Thoughts About Bill; Chapter 6: THE SMOKING GUN: EPILOGUE; AFTERWORD.Second Edition (January 2012). 33 photos, illustrations, documents.Review by Rita Sullivan (via mail): Recently I read We Came To Fight A War. It was so descriptive you could almost see it happening and it was so well written that I could not put the book down because I wanted to see what would happen next to those brave men that were putting their lives on the line for us. I love war stories especially if they are fact. This story I am sure is true because I personally know Al Kotler. He is a neighbor and good friend of mine. It is hard to even try to imagine what our men are going through in these terrible wars when you try to picture what HELL this small group of men went through. You have a BEST SELLER in this book and I think it would also make a truly wonderful movie for TV.

Download or read book B 17 Gunner written by Craig A. Kleinsmith and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-07-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Gunner written by Donald Nijboer and published by Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through Patterson's remarkable photography and Nijboer's interviews with veterans, "Gunner" allows readers to imagine what it must have been like to be an air gunner in the Second World War. 150 color photos plus historical b&w photos.

Download or read book Panzer Gunner written by Bruno Friesen and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider’s account of training and service in Nazi Germany’s twenty-fifth Panzer Regiment during World War II. There are few memoirs available of German Panzer crews that focus on the climactic last 12 months of the war on the Eastern Front, 1944-45. What makes Bruno Friesen's account virtually unique is his family background: his parents came from a German-speaking Mennonite community in Ukraine, and were to all intents and purposes culturally German. To make matters even more complex, in 1924 his parents left the Ukraine for Canada, where Bruno was born. In March 1939 he and his brother Oscar found themselves on a ship bound for Bremerhaven in Germany. He barely spoke German, and had never been to Germany, nevertheless his father envisaged that a better life awaited them in the Third Reich. Needless to say, Bruno became caught up in the Second World War, and in 1942 was drafted into the Wehrmacht. The author provides a full account of his family background, and how, through these unusual circumstances, he found himself a Canadian-born German soldier. The bulk of the book is a detailed account of the author’s training, and his subsequent service with 25th Panzer Regiment, part of 7th Panzer Division. As the title suggests, Bruno Friesen served as a gunner aboard, initially, Panzer IVs, before crewing the lesser-known Jagdpanzer IV tank hunter. The author provides a fantastic amount of information about these two vehicles, and how the crews actually fought in battle with them. This kind of 'hands-on' detail has almost never been available before, particularly such extensive information concerning the characteristics and combat performance of the Jagdpanzer IV. Apart from providing a large fund of information about specific German tanks and their combat performance, the author writes in great detail about the combat the experienced on the Eastern Front, including tank battles in Rumania, spring 1944, Lithuania in the summer of 1944, and West Prussia during early 1945. If one wants to know how German tank crews fought the Soviets in the last year of the war, then this book provides an outstanding account, containing material simply not found elsewhere. The author closes his account by reflecting on his post-war efforts to return to Canada, which eventually succeeded in 1950, and his subsequent life there. This book is not just a critique of armored fighting vehicles and tank warfare, it is above all a very human story, told in a lively, conversational and fluid manner, and is a remarkable contribution to the literature of the Second World War.

Download or read book Air Force Gunners written by Turner Publishing and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the airforce gunners from early days through World War II and later

Download or read book Marines written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Belly Gunner written by Dale Aldrich and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Radio Dealer written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Waist Gunner written by William Davis Parker and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of William Davis Parker, a Radio Operator/Waist-Gunner on a B-24 heavy bomber in World War II. Stationed in the Southwest Pacific, his story is told through an almost day to day diary that he kept in the period March 1943 to February 1945. The early pages in the diary sketch in some detail the training phase during which Parker evolved from a young cadet in pilot training to a disciplined and skilled Radio Operator/Gunner. Here we experience with Parker his daily frustrations and disappointments, his ups and downs, the environment in which this training took place -- as well as the few simple pleasures that airmen-trainees enjoyed in the early 1940s. The major portion of the diary is devoted to a nine-month period from May 1944 to February 1945. In that time span, Parker was assigned to a B-24 crew in the 394th Bomb Squadron, 5th Bomb Group, in the 13th Air Force. He was stationed at various times throughout the Southwest Pacific. His combat missions were flown from such places as Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, Los Negros in the Admiralty Islands, Wakde and Noemfoor in New Guinea, and Morotai in the Netherlands East Indies. Targets bombed included such Japanese airfields and installations as those on Truk, Yap, Woleai, and others in New Guinea, Borneo and the Philippines. Waste Gunner also includes three papers by Ulmer, which flush out some of the stories in Parker's diary. " The Cisco Kid in World War II" focuses on one 5th Group B-24, the crew that flew it overseas, and the adventures of that crew during their combat tour. This paper provides a detailed understanding of the conditions of life in the Pacific during World War II. But it also reveals the spirit of airmen under very harsh conditions--a spirit that never wavered and had much to do with the success of our forces in that theater of war. The second paper, "A Tough Month for the 5th Group, November, 1944" briefly summarizes all the missions flown by the 5th group in November but focuses specifically on two that Ulmer flew, one on November 7th and one on November 16th. Parker also flew the November 7th strike. This paper provides considerable detail on that mission from official Mission Reports that were not available to Parker as he composed his diary. The third paper,"Balikpapan, The 5th Group's Shining Hour", is devoted to a single mission, one flown against Japanese oil refineries at Balikpapan, Borneo on September 30,1944. That strike is generally viewed as the most important mission flown by the 5th Group during World War II.It significantly reduced the ability of the Japanese to produce refined petroleum products for use in their Philippines campaign. It is thought to have saved many lives later and was of great assistance to MacArthur in his campaign to recapture the Philippines. Parker flew this mission but in his diary, he does not adequately describe the mission and its consequences for his crew. The deficiency may be due to the fact that returning from the target his plane crash-landed on an island 400 miles from base, earning him a purple heart and delaying his return for a week. The Balikpapan paper provides many more details about the planning and execution of this mission. A strong feature of the diary is the detailed account Parker gives for each of the 28 missions he flew during his combat period. These accounts provide an excellent picture of just what was taking place in Parker's plane while subject to intense flak and Japanese fighter attack. He tells us about the fear, joy, hubris, and other characteristics of the men in his crew (and other crews) under combat conditions. He also keeps us well-informed about life on the ground -- the frequent Japanese bombing raids on his bases, how air crewmen spent their time when not on a mission, and the interaction of

Download or read book Heavy Date Over Germany written by Jewellee Jordon Kuenstler and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ray Perry was a farm boy from rural West Texas when America entered World War II. He always had a fascination with planes, so he joined the U.S. Army Air Corps with the intention of becoming a pilot. The Army Air Corps needed tail gunners, however, so Ray served his country at the back end of a B-17, completing thirty-five combat missions before the war’s end. This is the story of his World War II adventure, wrought with tragedy and excitement and every emotion in between. This is also the story of how a young man from a small West Texas town handled the upheaval that comes with war. Based off numerous primary source materials, Ray’s story unfolds through his letters, photos, and mementos. The book’s foreword is written by his son, and former Texas governor, Rick Perry. “I never was rattled . . . . I could never remember really being scared. I know I was. Had to be. But I had control of it.” “The pilot sent the radio operator back there to see if they got me . . . and he climbed, crawled, right there beside the side of that tail wheel, and he never did get back all the way where I was at, but he . . . saw me sitting up and he saw me move a little. So, he went back and told the pilot, ‘I guess he’s alright. I think he’s still alive.’” —Ray Perry, from the book

Download or read book The Machine Gunners written by Robert Westall and published by HarperTeen. This book was released on 1975 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an air raid, a group of English children find a German machine gun and hide it from adults who are looking for it.

Download or read book Gunner s Mate written by Jim Bomar and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: