Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team
de STEINBECK, John (1902-1968)
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The notes are often amusing: the captions of pictures of a B-17 and a B-24 on facing pages were (modified) to read "Boeing B-17E, commonly known as the Flying Fortress (Junk Heaps)" and "Consolidated B-24, commonly known as the Liberator (Billie 'B')"; in many cases they are merely informative, aimed at telling her name sake about crew activities and features of the plane; and sometimes touching (beneath the chapter opening photograph of a pilot, 1st Lt. Littlepage has added "And don't think he's not scared"). The only members not represented are 1st Lt. Leonard Barton Conway, Bombadier, and S/Sgt. William Posledni, Gunner.
The newly commissioned B-24 Liberator Bomber "Billie B" (42-40076) was assigned to the 13th Air Force, 307th Bombardment Group ("The Long Rangers"), 370th Bomber Squadron, and was first stationed at Carney Field, Guadalcanal, on May 29, 1943, with this crew flying missions until July 3, when the plane was grounded for repairs. On July 6 the 10-man crew was assigned to another plane for a bombing mission to Bougainville Island, and the plane and crew was lost at sea on its way back from the Philippines. The "Billie B" was assigned to a replacement crew and went on to serve valiantly in the South Pacific until the end of August, 1944. .
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A magnificent volume of short novels and an essential World War II report from one of America?s great twentieth-century writers On the heels of the enormous success of his masterwork The Grapes of Wrath ?and at the height of the American war effort?John Steinbeck, one of the most prolific and influential literary figures of his generation, wrote Bombs Away , a nonfiction account of his experiences with U.S. Army Air Force bomber crews during World War II. Now, for the first time since its original publication in 1942, Penguin Classics presents this exclusive edition of Steinbeck?s introduction to the then-nascent U.S. Army Air Force and its bomber crew?the essential core unit behind American air power that Steinbeck described as ?the greatest team in the world.?
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- Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team
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