I had a comrade : stories about the bravery, comradeship, and commitment of individual participants in the Second World War / by Paul M. Sailer.
Title:
I had a comrade : stories about the bravery, comradeship, and commitment of individual participants in the Second World War / by Paul M. Sailer.
ISBN:
9780985270513
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
Wadena, Minnesota : Loden Books, LLC, 2016.
©2016
Physical Description:
388 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm
Contents:
Photographs, images and illustrations/drawings -- List of maps -- Forward by Colonel Richard E. Cole -- Introduction by Paul M. Sailer -- Stories. Boomity, boomity, boomity, boom! -- A dark day -- All my love -- An empty bunk, an unoccupied chair -- Once a Kriegie, What price is war? -- Hissing bullets that whisper of eternity -- Husbands and wives -- I had a comrade -- Afterward: a remembrance -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix I: The wingman -- Appendix II: Big "B" -- Appendix III: The last of the bombardiers -- Appendix IV: U.S. Army officer and enlisted ranks -- Abbreviations -- Glossary of aviation terms -- Bibliography -- Index -- Author page.
Summary:
In I Had a Comrade the reader will meet: --Illinois-reared B-17 Flying Fortress pilot Bill Healy, whose introduction to war occurred at Hickam Field, Territory of Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. --Aviation Cadet Glenn McKean, an Iowa farm boy who left college to join the Army Air Corps. --Idaho fighter pilot Wally Kerley, a Boise Braves "running" guard whose flying skill puts him at the controls of a P-51 Mustang during the aircraft's maiden flight in the European theater. --Hawaiian-born Wah Kau Kong, the first Chinese-American fighter pilot to escort heavy bombers over Germany. --James Cannon, whose childhood in rural Nebraska helped prepare him for his ordeal as a prisoner-of-war. --North Carolinian Foy Garren, an aviation sheet metal specialist whose ingenuity kept the boys flying. --Infantryman Chet Sailer, a Minnesota hunter and fisherman slated to walk with Patton's Third Army across Germany in 1945. --P-51 Mustang aces Willie Y. Anderson and Carl Bickel, with wives Lois and Doris, adjusting to life in the aftermath of war. --Teenager Maria Doess Koehler, a Bavarian girl living in Nazi Germany. --French villagers remembering the sacrifice of a Minnesota-reared, Iowa State College educated husband and father, Major Don M. Beerbower.
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OCLC Number:
ocn968940160
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