Midnight Flight To Nuremberg

Author : Marcus Nannini
Publisher : Air World
ISBN 13 : 1526792745
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midnight Flight to Nuremberg written by Marcus Nannini and published by Air World. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of C-47 pilot and instructor, First Lieutenant Harry E. Watson, Jr, USAAF. 2022 IAN Book of the Year Awards, Third Place: Non-Fiction 2022 PenCraft Book Awards, Nonfiction - Biography 1st Place Winner 2021-2022 Overall Grand Prize Winner, Nonfiction, Readers Views Silver Medalist, 2022 IPPY Book Awards Finalist, 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Awards Finalist, American BookFest Awards This is the story of an American C-47 ‘Dakota’ pilot who earned three Air Medals, seven Battle Stars and flew twenty-seven combat missions during the Second World War. As a young U.S. pilot, Harry Watson, arrived in Britain as the Battle of Normandy was reaching its crescendo. Thrown immediately into the fray, Harry, along with more than 200 aircraft, set off to carry supplies to the troops fighting in France. But with visibility reduced to zero, the aircraft were ordered to turn back – all did except Harry, who successfully delivered his life-saving cargo of blood and US Army nurses. Harry continued to take risks, which resulted in many hair-raising episodes. This included almost being caught on the ground, while on an urgent fuel resupply mission for a platoon of General Patton’s tanks, by a German Mk.IV panzer and a battalion of supporting infantry. He flew throughout Operation Market Garden, losing a close friend to German anti-aircraft fire while taking some hits to his own plane. Thereafter he led a flight of five transports on a desperate mission to evacuate a mobile field hospital that was about to be over-run by the SS. Only four of the planes made it back as they came under direct fire just before they could take-off with scores of casualties and medical personnel crammed aboard each Dakota. Around midnight, in early April 1945, he was sent on a secret mission to fly to a point near Nuremberg, which was behind enemy lines at the time. It was necessary for him to locate an empty meadow in the dark, land, load a party of US soldiers and their captives, and then take-off again. He pulled it off. Among those prisoners was Franz von Pappen, the man who had persuaded President Hindenburg to make Hitler Chancellor of Germany in 1933. Von Papen had been seized at his own home by First Lieutenant Thomas McKinley and his men from the US 194th Glider Infantry Regiment. Based on his own recollections, as told to the author Marcus Nanni, this is Harry Watson’s exciting account of the air war told, unusually, through the words of a transport pilot.

Author : Martin W. Bowman
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473852129
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nuremberg written by Martin W. Bowman and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a brand-new, updated history of the Nuremburg Raid, taking advantage of new stores of information that have come to light in recent years. In his usual, highly-praised style, Martin Bowman's historical narrative is supplemented throughout by first-hand snippets of pilot testimony, offering an authentic sense of events as they played out. Having access to extensive archives of images ensures that this is a visually pleasing and comprehensive account of one of the most iconic raids of the Second World War.

Author : Doris Daily
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1988664357
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Live is to Fly written by Doris Daily and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TO LIVE IS TO FLY: Memoirs of an Executive PilotDreaming of Learning to Fly?And maybe becoming a Commercial Pilot?Have a seat in the airplane's cockpit and be entertained by these memoirs of an enthusiast aviator! Observe fascinating flight experiences, technology, and the beauty and forces of nature. Become captivated by the flying world of a professional pilot and flight instructor during the '80s and early '90s in Europe. And maybe gain also a few pieces of advice along the way for your own flying career...Explore the world of business aviation, flight training,Ambulance flights, landing on a military field, aerial photography, airplane transfers, and being a female flight instructor."e;Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."e; ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Author : David L. Lewis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510743170
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science for Sale written by David L. Lewis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in paperback and with a new introduction. Discover how and why the government is corrupting scientific research. When Speaker Newt Gingrich greeted Dr. David Lewis in his office overlooking the National Mall, he looked at Dr. Lewis and said: “You know you’re going to be fired for this, don’t you?” “I know,” Dr. Lewis replied, “I just hope to stay out of prison.” Gingrich had just read Dr. Lewis’s commentary in Nature, titled “EPA Science: Casualty of Election Politics.” Three years later, and thirty years after Dr. Lewis began working at EPA, he was back in Washington to receive a Science Achievement Award from Administrator Carol Browner for his second article in Nature. By then, EPA had transferred Dr. Lewis to the University of Georgia to await termination—the Agency’s only scientist to ever be lead author on papers published in Nature and Lancet. The government hires scientists to support its policies; industry hires them to support its business; and universities hire them to bring in grants that are handed out to support government policies and industry practices. Organizations dealing with scientific integrity are designed only to weed out those who commit fraud behind the backs of the institutions where they work. The greatest threat of all is the purposeful corruption of the scientific enterprise by the institutions themselves. The science they create is often only an illusion, designed to deceive; and the scientists they destroy to protect that illusion are often our best. This book is about both, beginning with Dr. Lewis’s experience, and ending with the story of Dr. Andrew Wakefield. This new edition, now for the first time in paperback, features a new introduction by the author.

Author : Floyd Williston
Publisher : GeneralStore PublishingHouse
ISBN 13 : 9781896182445
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through Footless Halls of Air written by Floyd Williston and published by GeneralStore PublishingHouse. This book was released on 1996 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harriette Fanning Read
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Haunted Student written by Harriette Fanning Read and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cyril Cook
Publisher : Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pu
ISBN 13 : 9781843862963
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chandlers Win Through written by Cyril Cook and published by Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pu. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight and the Aircraft Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Phil Carradice
Publisher : Accent Press
ISBN 13 : 1908192445
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Snapshots of Welsh History written by Phil Carradice and published by Accent Press. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating collection of stories from Welsh history collected from Phil Carradice’s popular BBC Wales blog, gathered together for the first time in a book. Among the incredible stories are... The man from Clydach who invented a Death Ray The Welsh aristocrat whose parrot once bit Herman Goering on the nose The witch who cursed the launch of a warship at Pembroke Dockyard The battle that was won by a herd of cows These stories are part and parcel of Welsh heritage and make history interesting. Snapshots of Welsh History – without the boring bits covers a wide range of Welsh history topics. Written in Phil’s unique easy-to-read yet elegant style, these stories are funny, tragic, sad and hilarious. Yet the one thing they all have in common is that they make compelling reading.