Return From Berlin

Capa
Pen and Sword, 01/03/2005 - 224 páginas
During the summer of 1944, the US Eighth Air Force was engaged in a ferocious daytime bombing campaign over Europe. This book is the memoir of a B-17 navigator who found himself far from his American home, based in the English countryside of Northamptonshire. His war in the air, flying deep into enemy territory, surviving intense enemy anti-aircraft fire and enemy fighter attacks, portrays the sometimes conflicting emotions of a young man at war. The book also relates how thfriendship with their eight year-old daughter, a relationship that becomes a symbol of survival.

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Prologue
3
1 The 401st Bomb Group H in England at War
18
The First Mission
24
3 Hamburg
44
4 Landscapes and Elizabeth
52
5 Berlin
58
6 Frevent
65
7 Montbartier
68
16 Peenemünde
116
17 Berlin II
123
18 Goodbye Elizabeth
126
19 Ludwigshafen
129
20 Ludwigshafen Again
138
21 Groesbeek
142
22 Forgotten Missions
147
23 Münster
149

8 Leipzig I
73
9 Munich I and II
76
10 Leipzig II
82
11 Marlene Dietrich
86
12 SaintLô
88
13 Merseburg
92
14 Lead Team
102
15 Nienburg and Kettering
106
24 Nürnberg
155
25 After the Last Bomb Run
163
26 Back in the USA
167
American Strategic Bombing
175
Missions
181
Robert Grilleys Military Decorations
183
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