Return from Berlin : The Eye of a Navigator

Grilley, Robert

ISBN 10: 1844152146 / ISBN 13: 9781844152148

Published by Pen and Sword Aviation, Barnsley, UK, 2005

About this Item

184pp. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. In as new condition throughout. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. 8vo. The memoir of a B-17 navigator and his crew mates who found themselves far from home, based in the Northamptonshire countryside. Some in-text black and white photographs.

Seller Inventory # 008560

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Return from Berlin : The Eye of a Navigator
• Publisher: Pen and Sword Aviation, Barnsley, UK
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844152146
• ISBN 13: 9781844152148
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • War, Military History and Weapons

About this title

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.

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.