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The View From the Bottom Up - Growing Up Fast in World War II (Paperback)
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The View From the Bottom Up - Growing Up Fast in World War II (Paperback)
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Loot Price R390
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Merriam Press Military Monograph 117. Author was a ball turret
gunner in a B-17 with the 533rd Bomb Squadron, 381st Bomb Group,
Eighth Air Force, Ridgewell, England. Out of the harshness of the
Great Depression were produced the people who would fight World War
Two in the factories and on the battlefields. Though very human in
their failings, they were a generation or so of people who were not
particularly self-absorbed or frivolous. As history has shown, they
were able to face with fierce dedication the terrible forces of the
Axis Powers and beat them. This story observes one of these young
persons as he grows rapidly to adulthood, along with his peers,
experiencing love, fear and having deep feelings of dedication to
protect his country...and is told at times with some humor. This
memoir is the story of a young aerial machine gunner, on a B-17
Flying Fortress bomber, who had to grow up fast. He participated as
a teenaged enlisted man in the World War II Big League of air
war...the ETO. In his turret hanging under that storied bomber, he
was positioned to defend his bomber from the Luftwaffe's deadly
fighter aircraft. This compelling story presents his perspective of
the committed life he and his peers brought to manned bomber
warfare, which is The View From The Bottom Up... literally and
figuratively. Contents: Prologue; Author's Notes and
Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: The Boy Awakens; Chapter 2: From Long
Beach to Tampa; Chapter 3: E Pluribus Unum; Chapter 4: Bon Voyage;
Chapter 5: And So It Begins; Chapter 6: Return to Schweinfurt;
Chapter 7: London; Chapter 8: Of Shots and Chaff; Chapter 9: The
City Girl; Chapter 10: Hamburg to Buzz Bombs; Chapter 11: The Dog
Fight; Chapter 12: The Battle of the Bulge; Chapter 13: At The
Palace Hotel; Chapter 14: Big B and Valentine's Day; Chapter 15:
The Combat Tour Closes; Chapter 16: Goodbye; Chapter 17: VE Day in
the Dark; Chapter 18: The Final Challenge; Epilogue; Afterword;
Addenda 1: Combat Missions; Addenda 2: Medals Awarded to S/Sgt.
Robert Gilbert; Addenda 3: Fortieth Year Reunion, Seattle;
References; 27 photos, illustrations and documents.
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