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Flak Happy
Author | : Frank Farr |
Publsiher | : Author House |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2011-10-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781467042574 |
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Flak over the target only stopped-or slowed-when Nazi fighter planes attacked the bombers of the 8th Air Force in World War II. Flak was anti-aircraft fire, and some 8th AF airmen hated it worse than fighters- "You can fight back against the fighters," they said, "but not the flak; we're just sitting ducks." Like many others, Lt. Frank Farr, B-17 navigator, experienced both and fell victim to both. "Flak Happy" tells the story of his sixteen and a half bombing missions over Nazi Germany. And it describes the mind-numbing consequences of flying repeatedly through that flak and how he and others dealt with them.
Fifty Years Among the New Words
Author | : John Algeo,Adele S. Algeo |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521449715 |
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This book, first published in 1992, is a unique repository of language use from 1941-91.
I Will Tell No War Stories
Author | : Howard Mansfield |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2024-04-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781493081097 |
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When Howard Mansfield grew up, World War II was omnipresent and hidden. This was also true of his father’s time in the Air Force. Like most of his generation, it was a rule not to talk about what he’d experienced in war. “You’re not getting any war stories from me,” he’d say. Cleaning up the old family house the year before his father's death, Mansfield was surprised to find a short diary of the bombing missions he had flown. Some of the missions were harrowing. Mansfield began to fill in the details, and to be surprised again, this time by a history he thought he knew. I Will Tell No War Stories is about undoing the forgetting in a family and in a society that has hidden the horrors and cataclysm of a world at war. Some part of that forgetting was necessary for the veterans, otherwise how could they come home, how could they find peace? I Will Tell No War Stories is also about learning to live with history, a theme Mansfield explored in earlier books like In the Memory House, which The New York Times called “a wise and beautiful book” and The Same Ax,Twice, said by the Times to be “filled with insight and eloquence … a brilliant book.”
The Jewish Veteran
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : Jewish soldiers |
ISBN | : WISC:89077233278 |
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Vintage Aircraft Nose Art
Author | : Gary Valant |
Publsiher | : Zenith Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2002-01-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780760312087 |
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The unique art that graced military aircraft in World War II and the Korean War. Applied by amateurs or professional artists like Vargas, the art typically featured alluring women whose charms belied the deadly cargo the crew hoped to deliver to its targets. Hundreds of examples are shown in a combination of archival photos from the wars and current photos of artwork in museum collections.
A Mighty Fortress
Author | : Chuck Alling |
Publsiher | : Casemate |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2008-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781612000848 |
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“In a fascinating way, Chuck Alling recalls his days as a pilot flying B-17s over Germany. He is truly a member of ‘The Greatest Generation’” (Former Pres. George H.W. Bush). A Mighty Fortress is the personal account of the captain and crew of a lead bomber in the enormous formation raids made by the Eighth Air Force during the last few months of the Second World War. It is an extraordinary tale of heroism and bravery on the part of the entire crew of just one B-17 amongst hundreds—but the one B-17 that meant most to them. Having flown twenty-seven missions before the war ended, Alling tells what it was like to be there, in the skies over enemy territory, constantly on the lookout for German fighters; of the enormity of some of the raids they were part of and the consequences for those on the ground; of the planes around them that fell out of the sky under enemy attack; of the horror and the determination to succeed. From a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters, this book gives a unique insight into the lives of one crew of one plane as the war neared its end.
450th Bomb Group H
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Turner Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Flight crews |
ISBN | : 9781563112430 |
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The 450th Bomb Group (H) contained the 720th, 721st, 722nd, and 723rd squdrons.
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Author | : Eric Partridge |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1426 |
Release | : 2006-05-02 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9781134963652 |
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The definitive work on the subject, this Dictionary - available again in its eighth edition - gives a full account of slang and unconventional English over four centuries and will entertain and inform all language-lovers.