Richard Eager A Pilots Story From Tennessee Eagle Scout To General Montgomerys Flying Fortress
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Author | : Richard Ernest Evans |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 2021-07-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781733351881 |
Captain Richard E. Evans was an American B-17 "Flying Fortress" pilot. He flew 55 combat missions and during that time was also chosen to fly British Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery to wherever the General needed to be throughout North Africa and Italy. Evans and "Monty" travelled together during a particularly dangerous phase of the war. The Allied forces were just beginning to turn back the brutal Axis armies that had invaded North Africa and were closing in on Egypt in an effort to gain control of the strategically vital Suez Canal. Over the deserts of Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, a rocky but honest and respectful friendship formed between the young American pilot, Captain Evans, and his British commander, Field Marshall Montgomery.This is also a tale of a young boy from Knoxville, Tennessee, who spread his wings, quite literally, to fly throughout the world in the service of the US Army Air Corps during World War II. It is the story of a close family told lovingly by one of its five sons, four of whom would live to serve in and survive the Second World War. It is also a glimpse of Middle American lives through small windows of time, reflecting the nineteen twenties, thirties, and forties. This is a first-hand account of a young man coming of age just as the Second World War erupted.o provide greater context and color to Colonel Evans's memoir, daughter Evans Kinnear included much of his research and additional archival materials, including: ? a chronology of his life's milestones and Second World War details; ? his own glossary of war terms; ? an appendix of original family letters, ? V-Mail, ? commendations and interesting documents, all primary sources that shed light on his personal and professional relationships; photos of Evans from Tennessee boyhood through military service;? maps illustrating the lands and seas over which he flew. An epilogue detailing his work after the Second World War is also included.
Author | : Raymond Mitchell |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 085052797X |
Raymond Mitchell, already a veteran of Sicily and Salerno, served as a Despatch Rider (DR) with 41 Royal Marines Commando throughout the North-West Europe campaign. Fortunately he considered his position in the military hierarchy as too lowly for the ban on keeping diaries to apply to him. As a result, Commando Despatch Rider is both an accurate and atmospheric record of one man's war seen from an unusual perspective. Use of the Unit's War Diary and contemporary records gives this war story a broader dimension.
Author | : William R. Sanford |
Publisher | : Enslow Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780766040083 |
"Examines the life of explorer John C. Frâemont, including his western expeditions over the Rocky Mountains, mapping California and Oregon, fighting for California's independence, his life as a soldier and politician, and his legacy as the Pathfinder"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Teddy Shuren |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2011-04-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473818877 |
Reinhard ‘Teddy’ Suhren fired more successful torpedo shots than any other man during the war, many before he even became a U-boat commander. He was also the U-boat service’s most irreverent and rebellious commander; his lack of a military bearing was a constant source of friction with higher authority. Valued for his good humour and ability to lead, his nickname was acquired because he marched like a teddy-bear. Despite his refusal to conform to the rigid thought-patterns of National Socialism, his operational successes protected him, and he found himself accepted in the highest circles of power in Germany. He was one of the lucky third of all U-boat crewmen who survived the war, largely because his abilities led to a senior land-based command. He was also one of the first to publish his reminiscences, his account being typically forthright – its German title, Nasses Eichenlaub, suggesting that although he was decorated with the Oak Leaves, he was always in hot water. He died in 1984 but interest in his career was revitalized by the discovery of photographs documenting one of his operations in U 564, published with great success in 2004 as U-Boat War Patrol by Lawrence Patterson.
Author | : Maurer Maurer |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 1428915850 |
Author | : Roger Ballen |
Publisher | : St Martins Press |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780312141875 |
Stark duotone portrait photographs capture the hidden world of South Africa's impoverished white inhabitants of the "plattelands," revealing a ravaged world of social and economic isolation, disease, poverty, alcoholism, and abandonment.
Author | : Derek Hopwood |
Publisher | : ISBS |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780863723131 |
This book, now available in paperback, is a fascinating study of a hitherto neglected topic: the way in which British, French, and Arab men and women related to each other sexually, primarily during the 19th and 20th centuries. In examining sexual perceptions propagated in travel writing, paintings, and novels together with sexual experiences of individuals, the author argues that sexual attitudes have deeply influenced Euro-Arab relationships in the past and still do so today. Sexual attitudes and proclivities affected the ways in which people reacted to each other and, perhaps more controversially, influenced the course of history. Inherited sexual ideas colored everyday relations in the Middle East and the relationships of Arabs in Europe. The book also examines how modern Arab writers have treated Euro-Arab sexual relations in their many novels and short stories.
Author | : Maurer Maurer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 706 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Aeronautics, Military |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anne Stuart |
Publisher | : Harlequin Books |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780373165735 |
The Soldier & The Baby by Anne Stuart released on Jan 25, 1995 is available now for purchase.
Author | : Ingard Clausen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Astronautics, Military |
ISBN | : |
Overview: Provides a history of the Corona Satellite photo reconnaissance Program. It was a joint Central Intelligence Agency and United States Air Force program in the 1960s. It was then highly classified.