Flying Flak Alley : Personal Accounts of World War II Bomber Crew Combat

Griggs, Alan L. (EDT)

McFarland & Co Inc（2008/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 267 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786437078
• DDC分類 940.54497309

Full Description

Air warfare was a decisive component of World War II, especially in western Europe and over Japan, where Allied bombers damaged 66 of the country's largest cities. The guts and glory of the bomber crews came, however, with a high casualty rate which had only improved marginally by the war's end. Descriptions of the bombers' harrowing missions told from the firsthand perspective of their pilots, navigators, bombardiers and gunners create the immediacy of a single person's experience during one of America's most daring military expeditions. A short biography of each veteran accompanies these tales of typical and not-so-typical missions.

Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     

Foreword by Michael Bess     

Preface     

1. Captain R.M. Benson     

2. Lieutenant Bill Jernigan     

3. Lieutenant Mandell Cypress     

4. Lieutenant Charles Jackson     

5. Captain Beecher Bilbrey     

6. Sergeant Bob Rourke     

7. Lieutenant Jim White     

8. Lieutenant Thomas French     

9. Sergeant Jim DeMontbreun     

10. Captain Bush Cole     

11. Sergeant Leonard Mika     

12. Captain Bob Gregg     

13. Lieutenant Harry Williams, Jr.     

14. Captain Bill Reeder     

15. Lieutenant Tom Graves     

16. Captain Bill Becker     

17. Sergeant David Oldashi     

18. Lieutenant Roy Buck     

19. Sergeant Bud Reeder     

20. Major Clarence Evans     

21. Sergeant John Katz     

22. Lieutenant Bill Rickman     

23. Lieutenant John McGonagle     

24. Lieutenant Art Driscoll     

25. Lieutenant Myron King     

26. Lieutenant Don Peterson     

27. Captain Al Suedekum     

28. Lieutenant John Lechleiter     

29. Sergeant Bernard Sanderson     

30. Sergeant Charles Whitehead     

31. Lieutenant Arvid Shulenberger     

32. Sergeant Bill Roberts     

33. Lieutenant Bob Smartt     

34. Captain J.O. Grizzell     

35. Captain Robert Fesmire     

36. Sergeant Bill Jones     

37. Lieutenant Ben Ernst     

38. Captain J. Ivan Potts, Jr.     

39. Sergeant Bill Eastland     

40. Lieutenant Bob Chambers     

41. Lieutenant Jim Kirtland     

42. Sergeant John Cunningham     

43. Major John Kolemba     

44. Major Cooper Schley     

45. Lieutenant Jack Downey     

46. Sergeant Robert Howell, Jr.     

47. Sergeant Robert Sheehan     

48. Lieutenant Bob Cartwright     

49. Lieutenant Jerry Neal     

50. Lieutenant Bob Elliott     

51. Lieutenant Eino Latvala     

52. Sergeant George Shreeve     

53. Lieutenant Mark Osborne     

54. Lieutenant W.C. Gibson     

55. Major Calvin Fite     

Index