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World War II Recollections of Eugene J. Ulrich (Paperback)
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World War II Recollections of Eugene J. Ulrich (Paperback)
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Loot Price R500
Discovery Miles 5 000
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A no-holds-barred account of Army Air Corps service in WWII and the
year immediately afterwards. There are many detailed recollections
of Army and civilian wartime people, and the places and situations
involving them, that portray life in this crucial period. The
emphasis generally is on how those dealing with all the terrible
trials of war attempted to cope with it all. Army regulations;
airplane, V-1 or V-2 bombings; German jet fighters (and an
underground factory that produced them); severe food shortages in
Europe; the Nuremberg court trials of Nazis; Hitler's "redoubt"
("secret" mountain-top retreat); postwar occupation of German;
Russian postwar occupation of other countries; and many other major
or minor events are examined. The book opens with the author's
enlistment as a cadet in Air Corps officer-training programs, with
tales of success or near-success in the ways cadets tried to
survive by "bucking the system." Further schooling (at Yale,
Harvard, and M.I.T.) led to his servicing as a radar officer in a
combat unit in France, a year in the forces occupying Germany, and
return to the U.S. in 1946. There are many surprising and often
amusing accounts of daily life, including a strange trip into
Russian-occupied Czechoslovakia, where some of the skills learned
as a "system -bucking" cadet proved just as effective in that
rather risky environment. There is a final note of anguish over all
the "fear, suffering, misery, horror, terror, torture, unbelievable
pain and death . . . of soldiers and civilians . . . in WWII,"
followed by the hope that the "mentality that says, 'Make my day by
getting in front of my gun' is something that we have enough brains
and understanding to avoid."
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