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Ladataan... In My Sights: The Memoir of a P-40 Ace (vuoden 1997 painos)Tekijä: James B. Morehead (Tekijä)
TeostiedotIn My Sights: The Memoir of a P-40 Ace (tekijä: James B. Morehead)
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Jim Morehead enlisted in August 1940. In February 1942 he earned the first of two Distinguished Service Crosses. Here he describes the wartime service of flying the P-40 Warhawk single engine monoplane against the Japanese Zero. Despite the odds against them, these brave aviators showed the enemy what good old-fashioned guts and gunnery meant in aerial combat. Morehead is a born storyteller and relates the reality -- from painful to hilarious -- of life in wartime military service. *Includes photographs A somewhat simple memoir with a strong focus on combat experience. The author gives a decent background of his life growing up on a farm in the depression and how tough that was. But after he joins the military he does not spend much time talking about his personal life. He spends a good deal of time talking about his experience early in the war against Japan against the Zero which was a better plane than our fighter planes giving the Japanese a big advantage. He had a lot of his squadron mates die in the Pacific. He also talks about his experience with the people of New Zealand and Australia. After many adventures he was transferred back to the States where he did some instructor time, got married, and then assigned to the European theater in Italy flying bomber escort in P-38s. He does talk about his next assignments after the war and working with Jet aircraft. He spent some time in Korea and some time training Taiwanese Air Force pilots. However, he doesn't go in depth on his time there or really have much deep analysis on the people other than a few stories he shares. näyttää 2/2 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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