A Thousand Shall Fall: The True Story of a Canadian Bomber Pilot in World War TwoDundurn, 1 de jan. de 2003 - 490 páginas During World War II, Canada trained tens of thousands of airmen under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Those selected for Bomber Command operations went on to rain devastation upon the Third Reich in the great air battles over Europe, but their losses were high. German fighters and anti-aircraft guns took a terrifying toll. The chances of surviving a tour of duty as a bomber crew were almost nil. Murray Peden's story of his training in Canada and England, and his crew's operations on Stirlings and Flying Fortresses with 214 Squadron, has been hailed as a classic of war literature. It is a fine blend of the excitement, humour, and tragedy of that eventful era. |
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... getting a couple of baloney sand- wiches to take on the train since he and his companions didn't have any money for dining cars , and it was a 700 mile ride to Winnipeg . It was all he could do to keep the cook from coming with him and ...
... getting out there on the Bonnie Doon bus . — - After I had hung up , I began to be assailed by grave doubts . Things had gone altogether too well . If this girl was so nice , how was it that Cameron was giving her up so freely ...
... getting ready to leave Saskatoon for Air Observer School in Winnipeg . He had been too keen . He hadn't waited for me to reach my eighteenth birthday so that we could join up together , and had joined up himself a few weeks ahead of me ...
... getting confused because they both shot down 26 planes . But Bishop shot down 26 in one month and finished up with 72. Your man — what was his name Hickenlapper , no , Rickenbackett — he only got 26 in the whole War , and that was ...
... getting a full account of the exploit from the horse's mouth , we relayed the tale , suitably embellished to heighten the drama , to the half of the course who had been at ground school when it happened . - - were now Those of us who ...
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A Thousand Shall Fall: The True Story of a Canadian Bomber Pilot in World ... Murray Peden Visualização parcial - 2003 |