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Missions Remembered: Recollections of the World War II Air War The Men Of The Middle Tennessee Ww Ii Fighter Pilot Association

Missions Remembered: Recollections of the World War II Air War By The Men Of The Middle Tennessee Ww Ii Fighter Pilot Association

Missions Remembered: Recollections of the World War II Air War by The Men Of The Middle Tennessee Ww Ii Fighter Pilot Association


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From bailouts to belly landings, flaming cockpits to lurching carrier decks, this work contains the heroic tales of pilots from various 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.

Missions Remembered: Recollections of the World War II Air War Summary

Missions Remembered: Recollections of the World War II Air War by The Men Of The Middle Tennessee Ww Ii Fighter Pilot Association

From bailouts to belly landings, flaming cockpits to lurching carrier decks, here are the heroic 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 anthology of combat tales with great appeal both for veterans and historians.

Table of Contents

The Damn Yanks, Told by Enoch B. Stevenson, Jr.Last Cadet to Solo, Told by Charles R. Mott.Iirmgad, Told by Lee V. Gossick. How It All Began or Don't Call Us, We'll Call You, Told by Edward F. Jones. North Africa, Told by Lee V. Gossick. Goods and Foolishness (How Did I Ever Survive?) Told by Johnnie B. Corbitt. Dropping In for a Visit, Told by Frank N. Davis, Jr. My First Mission Was Almost My Last, Told by Charles R. Mott. How Not to Become a Great Hero, Told by Enoch B. Stevenson, Jr. My First Mission, Told by William A. Potts. Midair, Told by E. H. Bayers. Becoming a Fighter Pilot, Told by Robert F. Hahn. In and Out of the Clouds, Told by Bill Burch. Bogie, Told by Lee V. Gossick. Messerschmitt 262, Told by Clifford J. Harrison, Jr. Southwest Pacific--June 30, 1943, Told by Bill Burch. An Unusual Experience, Told by J. Pat Maxwell. A Fighter Pilot's First Victory, Told by Charles R. Mott. The Great Beer Caper, Told by Edward F. Jones. Encounters with German ME-109s, Told by J. Pat Maxwell. Liri Valley, 1943 Told by Roy B, Broster, Jr. Last Mission for Lieutenant Hudgins, Told by Ernest C.Perry. It's a Beach: All That Saltwater and No Sand, Told by Kenneth West. Opportunity Missed, Told by Beverly W. Landstreet. Listen and You Might Get the Message, Told by Leslie E. Traughber. The 64th Navy, Told by Edward F. Jones. European Theater of Operations (Italy): Combat Mission 60, Told by Herman K. Freeman. Red Haze, Told by William S.Miller. Two Combat Tours, Told by J. Pat Maxwell. Somewhere in Space, Told by Kenneth West. Midair Fill-Up, Told by William Shwab. European Theater of Operations (Italy): Combat Mission 111, Told by Herman K. Freeman. My Longest Day, Told by Roy D. Simmons, Jr. Normandy Revisited, Told by Joe Thompson, Jr. D-Day, Told by Enoch B. Stevenson, Jr. Where Where You on D-Day? Told by Leslie E. Traughber. Zero, Told by Frank N. Davis, Jr. My First Combat Mission, Told by Hensley Williams. The Mission, Told by Charles R. Mott. Rabaula, Told by Beverly W. Landstreet. Turkey Shoot, July 1944, Told by William S. Milller. The Introduction, Told by O. T. Ridley. Another Interesting Day, Told by Roy D. Simmons, Jr. Mortain and the Oracle at Bletchley, Told by Joe Thompson, Jr. Project Anvil, Told by William W. Wells. Not So Routine, Told by Roy D. Simmons, Jr. European Theater of Operations (Southern France): Combat Mission 144, Told by Herman K. Freeman.Severe Weather, Told by William Shwab. Operation Market Garden, Told by Enoch B. Stevenson, Jr. Beach Workout, Told by W. S. Whitmore. European Theater of Operations (Southern France): Combat Mission 145, Told by Herman K. Freeman. A Tallyho and a Hey, Rube, Told by Kenneth West.Not My Day, Told by William H. Wells. Five, Told by O. T. Ridley.Northern Italy, 1944, Told by George M. Blackburn. My Squadron's Pacific Flight From Eniwetok Atoll to Okinawa, Told by Hensley Williams. Incidents Remembered 50 Years Later, Told by Johnnie B.Corbitt. Not My Day II, Told by William H. Wells. Pandemonium, Told by William S. Miller. The Jet Stream and Bum Steers, Told by Enoch B. Stevensom, Jr. Break Right and Up, Told by Joe Thompson, Jr. Attach on Tachikawa, Told by E. H. Bayers. Combat Missions over Northern Italy, Told by George M. Blackburn. Carrier Crash, Told by David C. Kipp.Armed Reconnaissance: Southwest Belgium, Told by Johnnie B. Corbitt.How It Ended, Told by Roy D. Simmons, Jr. First Mission, Told by Clifford J. Harrison, Jr. Rescue of a Downed SB2C Pilot: The Battle ofKagoshima Bay, Told by Roland H. Baker, Jr. Kamikazes, Told by Hensley Williams. Kamikaze, Told by David C. Kipp. Dive-Bombing Along the Rhine, Told by Johnnie B. Corbitt. The Chocolate Bar, Told by William S. Miller. Bad Weather, Told by Clifford J. Harrison, Jr. Okinawa, Told by William H. Pickron. A Walk Unspoiled, Told by O. T. Ridley. Turkey Shoot No. 2, Told by William S. Miller. Flattop Landing, Told by William T. Sellers. Commander Bud Schumann, Told by David C. Kipp. How to Land a PT-17, Told by Dutch McMillin. The Last Plane Shot Down, Told by William T. Sellers. The Atomic Bomb, Told by Eugene D. Pargh.Pucker Factor 9, Told by William H. Pickron. Halsey's Whimsy, Told by David C. Kipp.

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GOR011592281
9780070016491
0070016496
Missions Remembered: Recollections of the World War II Air War by The Men Of The Middle Tennessee Ww Ii Fighter Pilot Association
Used - Very Good
Hardback
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
1998-04-16
220
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