My War in Italy: On the Ground and in Flight with the 15th Air Force (American Military Experience) - Hardcover

Mason, Keith W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826220592 ISBN 13: 9780826220592

Verlag: University of Missouri Press, 2016

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"A highly readable account of one young man's desire to fly written with the honest and authentic voice of someone who entered the war as an idealistic youth and came out the other side profoundly changed."-Dennis Okerstrom, author of Project 9: The Birth of Air Commandos in World War II

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Six weeks before Pearl Harbor, Keith Mason received a $150 uniform allowance, a pair of silver wings, and his first assignment as a flight instructor: Randolph Field, Texas. Two years later, he was Squadron Officer in the 460th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force in Spinazzola, Italy - flying the harrowing combat missions he dreamed of as a boy in rural Iowa. As a memoir of one man's war years, Mason provides insight on the inner workings of serving as an airman during World War II: facing stultifying boredom, stupefying incompetence, paralyzing fear, and stunning success. Details of how crews were selected for combat missions, of the necessity to occasionally break up crews, and of select missions in which Mason was a participant are important additions to the history and literature of this often neglected theater.

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• Verlag: University of Missouri Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0826220592
• ISBN 13: 9780826220592
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216