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Author : Gale Richard Ammerman
Publisher : Merriam Press
ISBN 13 : 1576382141
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)
Download or read book An American Glider Pilot's Story written by Gale Richard Ammerman and published by Merriam Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gale Ammerman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781435749528
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)
Download or read book An American Glider Pilot's Story written by Gale Ammerman and published by . This book was released on 2008-08-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir of a U.S. Army Air Forces glider pilot in World War II. After training he joined the 81st Troop Carrier Squadron, 436th Troop Carrier Group, in July 1943. He flew gliders into combat during the Normandy (D-Day - Overlord) invasion, Holland (Operation Market Garden), and the Rhine crossing operations, and his accounts of these episodes are detailed and riveting. 61,000 words, 26 photos, 40 documents.
Author : Gale R Ammerman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781716557101
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book An American Glider Pilot's Story written by Gale R Ammerman and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of one American glider pilot in World War II. After enlisting in the Army in May 1941, Gale went through basic training and airplane mechanic instruction. In 1942 he volunteered for glider pilot training, going to South Plains Army Flying School, Lubbock, Texas, and later Bowman Field, receiving ground combat training since glider pilots might be required to fight as infantry after a combat landing. In 1943 he joined the 436th Troop Carrier Group and after more training, the unit set off for England on 24 December 1943. Gale then flew gliders into combat during the Normandy invasion, Holland and Rhine crossing operations, and his accounts of these episodes are detailed and riveting. You will not soon forget the story of a young man who went off to war as a member of one of the most dangerous occupations of any combat arm. 65 photos/documents. A Merriam Press World War 2 Autobiography.
Author : John L. Lowden
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)
Download or read book Silent Wings at War written by John L. Lowden and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1992 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pilots were known as "suicide jockeys" and the aircraft they flew were called "flak bait." Towed behind modified bombers or transport aircraft, Allied combat gliders were used in some of the riskiest missions of World War II, landing miles behind enemy lines with specially trained assault forces. In "Silent Wings at War," John L. Lowden combines his own recollections with those of fellow veterans to create a vivid, gritty, jocose memoir of war as he and other glider pilots and their passengers knew it. These true tales of courage, as well as command blunders, make a substantial contribution to WWII literature.
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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0938021958
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Download or read book World War II Glider Pilots written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mike Peters
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1783378484
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)
Download or read book Glider Pilots in Sicily written by Mike Peters and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-01-19 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Airborne landings on Sicily are the least known and, without doubt, the most fraught with political and technical strife. Newly formed Air landing troops were delivered into battle in gliders they knew little about. The men of the Glider Pilot Regiment (GPR) had self-assembled the gliders while living in the empty packing cases. They accomplished this complex and technically challenged task while living on fly ridden, dusty North African airfields. After only a few hours of conversion training they took off for a night flight across the Mediterranean Sea that was to end in near-catastrophe.With over three hundred soldiers drowned off Sicily that night in July 1943, the first major operation attempted by the British using gliders almost ended in total disaster. In fact a few Airborne troops reached dry land and attacked their objectives. Shining examples of collective and individual acts of courage rocked the Italian and German defenders. This book tells the controversial story of that first mass glider operation and the men who proved the GPR motto Nothing is Impossible.This is the first account of the Sicily air landing operation.
Author : Donald J. Rich
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603449620
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Download or read book Glider Infantryman written by Donald J. Rich and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A member of the famed Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division, Donald J. Rich went ashore on D-Day at Utah Beach, was wounded in the bloody conflict at Carentan, landed in a flimsy plywood-and-canvas glider on the battlefields of Holland, and survived the grim siege with the "Battling Bastards of Bastogne" during the Battle of the Bulge. Glider Infantryman is his eyewitness account of how he, along with thousands of other young men from farms, small towns, and cities across the United States, came together to answer the call of their nation. It is also a heartfelt tribute to the many thousands who gave their lives in this struggle. Coauthored by Kevin Brooks, the son of Rich's best friend and World War II comrade, Glider Infantryman covers a span of nearly three years; his return home, five months after the war's end, as a toughened bazooka gunner and veteran of five campaigns. Rich's first-person narrative includes vivid coverage of the action, featuring an especially rare account of arriving on a combat landing zone by glider. Detailed, day-to-day depiction of some of the heaviest fighting in Holland follows, including the action at Opheusden, the center of the infamous "Island." Later highlights include the Battle of the Bulge, where Rich recounts his experiences in some of the hottest defensive fighting of the European Theater, including the epic tank battles at Marvie, Champs, and Foy.
Author : J. Norman Grim
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1438904843
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)
Download or read book To Fly the Gentle Giants written by J. Norman Grim and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life, love, heartache and love again. Some real, some imagined - all with very real emotion.
Author : Joe Karam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997355307
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)
Download or read book Danger and Poetry written by Joe Karam and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man's discovery into soaring flight. An aviation memoir written for prospective and novice pilots as well as anyone who hasn't stopped dreaming and daring. Praised as "insightful" and "revealing" by Thomas L. Knauff, member of the United States Soaring Hall of Fame and glider pilot from the 1999 motion picture The Thomas Crown Affair.
Author : Charles J Masters
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809320080
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Download or read book Glidermen of Neptune written by Charles J Masters and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1995-12-22 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masters has also assembled the finest existing collection of photographs of the American D-Day glider attack. These photographs - many of which have never before been publishedafford the opportunity to examine the inside of the combat gliders used on D-Day, to observe the glidermen in action, and to witness the often tragic consequences of the glider attack.
