Bomber Pilot A Memoir of World War II

Name: Bomber Pilot A Memoir of World War II
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ISBN: 9780813108667

ISBN-10: 0813108667

ISBN-13: 9780813108667

Edition: 1978

Authors: Philip Ardery

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" Winner of the Best Aeronautical Book Award from the Reserve Officers Association of the United States "The sky was full of dying airplanes" as American Liberator bombers struggled to return to North Africa after their daring low-level raid on the oil refineries of Ploesti. They lost 446 airmen and 53 planes, but Philip Ardery's plane came home. This pilot was to take part in many more raids on Hitler's Europe, including air cover for the D-Day invasion of Normandy. This vivid firsthand account, available now for the first time in paper, records one man's experience of World War II air warfare. Throughout, Ardery testifies to the horror of world war as he describes his fear, his longing…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1978
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Publication date: 4/25/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Philip Ardery is the author of Bomber Pilot: A Memoir of World War II.



Foreword


Acknowledgments


Prologue: On the Shoulders of the Dead



The Gadget



The Merry-Go-Round



Ted's Flying Circus



Ploesti and the Circus Ends



The Air War of Western Europe



The Wing



Something to Believe In


Index