Военная история / In Hostile Skies: An American B-24 Pilot in World War II

Издательство: University of North Texas Press
Серия: North Texas Military Biography and Memoir Series
Автор: James M. Davis
Название: In Hostile Skies: An American B-24 Pilot in World War II
Язык: английский
Год издания: 206
Количество страниц: 249
ISBN: 978-1-57441-209-3
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 4 мб

James "Jim" Davis lived what he considered "an impossible dream" as he piloted a B-24 as part of the 8th Air Force on more than thirty missions in the European Theatre during World War II. He flew support missions for Operations Cobra and Market Garden and numerous bombing missions over occupied Europe in the summer and fall of 1944, attacking enemy airfields, airplane factories, railroad marshalling yards, ship yards, oil refineries, and chemical plants. While he and his crew survived without serious injuries, they witnessed the destruction of many of their friends' planes and experienced serious damage to their own plane on several occasions.