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You Up There - We Down Here - Schoolboys Deployed as Anti-Aircraft Gun Assistants (Hardcover)
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You Up There - We Down Here - Schoolboys Deployed as Anti-Aircraft Gun Assistants (Hardcover)
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Here the author describes his experiences as a Luftwaffe
Anti-Aircraft Assistant from 1944-1945: "It was simply a question
of us fifteen to sixteen-year olds manning the anti-aircraft guns
on the ground defending ourselves against the airmen in the bombers
and fighters 20,000 feet above our heads." Letters, reports,
documents and above all, the author's complete diary and
photographs do so much to authenticate this time capsule. He
describes how it was in those days, the final two years of World
War II, both on the ground and in the air, manning the guns and
systems of the 7th German Anti-Aircraft Brigade, or on operations
with the bombers of the 15th US Air Fleet - including insight into
the lives of the schoolboy troopers "down here" and the bomber
crews "up there". About the Author MSc Eng. Gerhard Oberleitner was
born in Ybbs an der Donau, Austria, on April 7, 1928, the younger
son of a Master Carpenter. He attended grade school in Ybbs, and
the first to fourth years of high school in Vienna 19. He was
supposed to attend the fifth to eighth high school years in
Amstetten, but after the first trimester of the 6th grade, he was
drafted as a Luftwaffe Anti-Aircraft Assistant. Almost up to the
end of World War II, he served with a heavy AA battery in St.
Valentin.
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