Return From Berlin: The Eye of a Navigator

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Pen and Sword, 01.03.2005 - 224 Seiten
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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Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue
The 401st Bomb Group H in England at
The First Mission
Hamburg
Landscapes and Elizabeth
Berlin
Frevent
Montbartier
Leipzig I

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Robert Grilley is professor emeritus of art at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. A respected figure painter and teacher, he has shown his work at museums and galleries throughout the United States, including a large retrospective at the Wichita Museum.

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