Return from Berlin: the Eye of a Navigator - Hardcover

Grilley, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844152146 ISBN 13: 9781844152148

Publisher: Leo Cooper Ltd / Pen & Sword, 2004

Synopsis

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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Review:

We've just trampled on the I. G. Farben Chemical Works in Ludwigshafen. It's midday September 3rd ... again salvos of 88s burst a hundred yards ahead of us with more to their left. Many are firing now. A shell has passed through the middle of our right wing, soundless in the ambient noise until the explosion occurs a fraction of a second later. None of us is hit, Lord of mercy, but Death is still out there. A tall geyser of fuel is instantly transformed into a vapor cloud while mixing with the hot exhaust gasses from number three engine--the ultimate moment? No, Nature is indecisive.

About the Author:

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."

About this edition

• Publisher: Leo Cooper Ltd / Pen & Sword
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1844152146
• ISBN 13: 9781844152148
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224