Return From BerlinPen 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. |
Índice
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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