Wings Over Normandy

Author : Harry Gael Michaels
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469136783
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wings Over Normandy written by Harry Gael Michaels and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel is about one young man, of Irish Catholic descent, growing up in San Francisco of emigrant Irish parents and entering WWII shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. During his high school years he works, in his spare time, at the Fisherman's wharf. He meets and falls in love with the daughter of a fishing boat skipper but one night as they are crossing the street to go to dinner at a small restaurant in the North Beach District a random bullet from China Town finds its mark in the chest of the girl he intends to build his life around and the event leaves the young man in state of anger and despair as the war breaks out. He joins the service and becomes a pilot of a B-26 medium bomber which eventually takes him to combat in Europe and his participation in the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944. While recuperating from wounds and emotional exhaustion suffered from a bombing mission in France he meets and falls in love with an Irish girl. The book, itself, is a work of historical fiction but stays close to the factual history of the WWII era with special reference to the war in Europe and the part played by the Eighth U.S. Air Force and the Royal Air Force of Great Britain.

Author : Harry Gael Michaels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781962868365
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wings Over Normandy written by Harry Gael Michaels and published by . This book was released on 2024-02-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story about one young man of Irish immigrant parents growing up in San Francisco and entering the Army shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. During his high school years, he worked at the Fisherman's Wharf on weekends, where he fell in love with the daughter of a fishing boat skipper. This relationship ends in tragedy as the war begins. After joining the military service, he qualifies for flight school and then goes to Europe as the pilot of a B-26 medium attack bomber-the type that was used almost exclusively during the Normandy invasion of June 6, 1944. Following a crash and while recuperating from physical and emotional exhaustion from a bombing mission in France, his flight surgeon sends him off for a stay with friends in a small fishing village on the eastern coast of Ireland. There, he finds renewed vigor for life, especially in the mutual interest of the daughter of this loving family who is coming of age. They eventually marry and return to San Francisco to start a new life together. Having had a father who served in WWII as a medical officer and because of my life-long interest in aviation as a private pilot, I was drawn to write a historical account of the great Normandy invasion of June 6, 1944, and the events leading up to it. I was prompted to develop this into a story involving one young man and his experiences, so the work is classified as historical fiction-even though the events of the war are historically accurate. In addition, my undergraduate training in political science and history piqued my interest in exploring the geographical events leading up to the emergence of the war. I see this story as a tribute to the men and women of the U.S. Eight Air Force in Europe and the Royal Air Force of Great Britain-and my father.

Author : Harry Gael Michaels
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469136791
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wings Over Normandy written by Harry Gael Michaels and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel is about one young man, of Irish Catholic descent, growing up in San Francisco of emigrant Irish parents and entering WWII shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. During his high school years he works, in his spare time, at the Fisherman’s wharf. He meets and falls in love with the daughter of a fishing boat skipper but one night as they are crossing the street to go to dinner at a small restaurant in the North Beach District a random bullet from China Town finds its mark in the chest of the girl he intends to build his life around and the event leaves the young man in state of anger and despair as the war breaks out. He joins the service and becomes a pilot of a B-26 medium bomber which eventually takes him to combat in Europe and his participation in the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944. While recuperating from wounds and emotional exhaustion suffered from a bombing mission in France he meets and falls in love with an Irish girl. The book, itself, is a work of historical fiction but stays close to the factual history of the WWII era with special reference to the war in Europe and the part played by the Eighth U.S. Air Force and the Royal Air Force of Great Britain.

Author : Graham Drucker
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1844687821
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wings over the Waves written by Graham Drucker and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the biography of one of the Royal Navys legendary pilots. BF or Daddy as he was known, started his career at Dartmouth and then spent his early seagoing years in Hong Kong, Nagasaki and Hiroshima. His wartime experiences as a Fleet Air pilot aboard HMS Glorious included the historic air strike at Taranto and the search for the Graf Spee. In May 1940 he was loaned to Coastal Command and attacked German Panzer tanks in a biplane, defended Allied troops over Dunkirk and was one of only a few naval officers to fight in the Battle of Britain. After a period as a test pilot at Boscombe Down he became one of only four Wing Leaders in the Royal Navy. His successful leadership lead to many more successes, not least the crippling of Tirpitz as part of a diversionary plan in the lead up to D-Day.He was a superb pilot, loved by all the air and ground crew under his command. His reputation as a fearless and dynamic leader remains a legend today. The book contains detailed and graphic accounts of aerial sorties and strikes throughout the dark days over Nazi Europe. Tragically he was killed in action in July 1944, one week prior to promotion and a job ashore. The book includes many of his letters and extracts from his diary.

Author : Anthony Saunders
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780954997069
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wings of War written by Anthony Saunders and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Center for Air Force History (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wings at War: Sunday punch in Normandy, the tactical use of heavy bombardment in the Normandy invasion written by Center for Air Force History (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sarah Sundin
Publisher : Revell
ISBN 13 : 1441213546
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Memory Between Us (Wings of Glory Book #2) written by Sarah Sundin and published by Revell. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Jack Novak has never failed to meet a challenge--until he meets army nurse Lieutenant Ruth Doherty. When Jack lands in the army hospital after a plane crash, he makes winning Ruth's heart a top priority mission. But he has his work cut out for him. Not only is Ruth focused on her work in order to support her orphaned siblings back home, she carries a shameful secret that keeps her from giving her heart to any man. Can Jack break down her defenses? Or are they destined to go their separate ways? A Memory Between Us is the second book in the WINGS OF GLORY series, which follows the three Novak brothers, B-17 bomber pilots with the US Eighth Air Force stationed in England during World War II.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wings at War Series, No. 1-6: Sunday punch in Normandy, the tactical use of heavy bombardment in the Normandy invasion written by and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chris Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1846039746
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Typhoon Wings of 2nd TAF 1943–45 written by Chris Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-20 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Typhoon was the RAF's heavyweight fighter-bomber of choice to support the British and Canadian armies during the invasion of northwest Europe. In this book Chris Thomas extols the great importance of the Typhoon wings in the ultimate Allied victory in Europe. He describes their destruction of German radar in the lead-up to D-Day, the use of large-scale rocket projectiles in land battles and pinpoint attacks on German command and control centres, which crippled the Wehrmacht's ability to respond quickly to Allied troop movements. But not everything went smoothly for the Typhoon wings. Their epic battle with highly effective German flak installations prompted Air Chief Marshal Sir Harry Broadhurst to remark 'I suppose that flying one of these aircraft was the most dangerous task the Air Force has ever asked anybody to do'.

Author : Ronald Schaffer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199878978
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wings of Judgment written by Ronald Schaffer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988-09-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II--"the good war"--is here viewed from a new angle of vision, one that sheds fresh light on how major decisions were reached. More than just a book on the strategy and outcome of American bombing in World War II, Wings of Judgment tells about choices in war, decisions that determined whether hundreds of thousands of people lived or died and whether famous cities and great monuments of civilization survived or were destroyed. It is about the bombing of Dresden and Berlin and of dozens of cities and towns all over Germany and about the preservation of Rome and Florence. It is about the incineration of Tokyo, the bombing of Hiroshima, and the sparing of one of Japan's most beautiful and holy places, the city of Kyoto. Describing U.S. air raids that terrified inhabitants of enemy nations and citizens of enemy-occupied countries, it raises serious questions about the military and moral effects of American bombing. It also tells of American efforts to avoid killing civilians needlessly. Taking us behind the scenes at military headquarters, Schaffer shows that even the toughest warriors occasionally found themselves offering moral arguments for their actions, arguing that they were made right by enemy atrocities, by the justness of the Allied cause, and by the numbers of lives of American servicemen that Allied bombing might save.