Pilots and Painted Ladies : 493rd Bomb Squadron and the Air War in the CBI.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Drake, Lawrence V.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Havertown : Casemate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC, 2025.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Author's Notes

Prologue

Chapter 1 - Heavens to Betsy

Chapter 2 - Across the Atlantic

Chapter 3 - Casablanca

Chapter 4 - Pyramids

Chapter 5 - Karachi

Chapter 6 - Across India

Chapter 7 - Karnani Estates

Chapter 8 - Calcutta

Chapter 9 - Cultural Orientation

Chapter 10 - Train to Nowhere

Chapter 11 - Pandaveswar

Chapter 12 - Introduction to War

Chapter 13 - Rookie

Chapter 14 - A Time of Testing

Chapter 15 - Dreaming

Chapter 16 - Goon at Noon

Chapter 17 - Hero

Chapter 18 - Bombs Away

Chapter 19 - The Girls

Chapter 20 - War Never Stops

Chapter 21 - Dangerous Drake

Chapter 22 - Birth of a Nose Artist

Chapter 23 - AZON

Chapter 24 - Wandering Wanda

Chapter 25 - The Last Liberator

Chapter 26 - Grounded

The Himalayas

Chapter 27 - Tezpur

Chapter 28 - In the Clouds

Chapter 29 - Kunming

Chapter 30 - Floating Mountains

Chapter 31 - No News

Chapter 32 - Aircraft Commander

Chapter 33 - Ups and Downs

Chapter 34 - Lost

Chapter 35 - News from Home

Chapter 36 - Miracles

Chapter 37 - The Stack

Chapter 38 - USS Missouri

Chapter 39 - Going Home

Epilogue - The Panda Girls Live On

The Panda Girls - Nose Art by Lt. Vernon Drake

"The Farm Boy" - By Lt. Vernon Drake 1922-2004

Bibliography of Further Reading.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781636244969

OCLC:

1481820397