Unsung Eagles : True Stories of America's Citizen Airmen in the Skies of World War II

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stout, Jay.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Air pilots, Military--United States.

Air pilots, Military - United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (542 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Havertown : Casemate, 2013.

Summary:

The nearly half-million American aircrewmen who served during World War II have almost disappeared. And so have their stories. Award-winning writer and former fighter pilot Jay A. Stout uses Unsung Eagles to save an exciting collection of those accounts from oblivion. These are not rehashed tales from the hoary icons of the war. Rather, they are stories from the masses of largely unrecognized men who-in the aggregate-actually won it. They are the recollections of your Uncle Frank who shared them only after having enjoyed a beer or nine, and of your old girlfriend's grandfather who passed away

Contents:

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Prologue; 1 Americans Under Other Flags: John A. Campbell; 2 Tigers in the Fray: Ken Jernstedt; 3 Dive Bombers at Guadalcanal: Jesse Barker; 4 Army Fighters Over Guadalcanal: Julius Jacobson; 5 North Africa and the Pacific: Hamilton McWhorte; 6 the early Fight: John "Jack" Walker; 7 Heroes at Home: Mort Blumenfeld; 8 Civilians in Uniform: Rudolph W. Matz; 9 Americans Over China: Walt Kaestner; 10 Crushing the Reich: Howard "Jack" Dentz; 11 Photo Reconnaissance: Willard Caddell

12 Attack and Medium Bombers Over Northern Europe: Harry "Bob" Popeney13 Low Level Fury: Roman Ohnemus; 14 Second Battle of the Philippine Sea: Ray Crandall and Richard Deitchman; 15 Downed in Yugoslavia: Howard O. Wilson; 16 Breakout Across Europe: Robert Macdonald; 17 Night Armed Reconnaissance: Alvin E. "Bud" Anderson; 18 The Sharecropper's Son Bombs Hitler: George M. Kesselring; 19 Cold and Deadly Sea: Donald Whitright; 20 Escorts Over Europe: Herman Schonenberg; 21 A Can of Peaches: Emilius Roger Ciampa; Acknowledgments

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-61200-210-2

OCLC:

865331045