Tales of a Tail Gunner

Tales of a Tail Gunner
Author: Eddie Picardo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1996-06-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781883697334

Tail Gunner

Tail Gunner
Author: Dee Phillips
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9780606355797

Series features historical fiction and includes a nonfiction summary. Each book concludes with a series of activities designed to further explore the subject. Each story concludes in approximately 1,000 words. Each book contains stunning full-color i

The Tail Gunner

The Tail Gunner
Author: Stephanie Lile
Publisher: Bering Street Books
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2014-11-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780989650502

A tragic romance across time and place, this novel chronicles the story of 17-year-old Sylvie Bishop and her efforts to help the ghost of a WWII bomber boy set right his wartime wrongs.

Wing Ding

Wing Ding
Author: Gene T. Carson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2001-04-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738856889

This is no run-of-the-mill WWII book. It is the exciting story of a cook in the Army Air Corps. It tells of his unauthorized move from the kitchen to life as an aerial gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress in the unfriendly skies of Europe in 1943 to 1945. You will laugh cry and share in his life as he fights for his country while snatching moments of relief and love between missions. For those who were there it will bring back memories. For others, it will tell what it was like for grandfathers, fathers and uncles.

Tailspin

Tailspin
Author: John Armbruster
Publisher: Ten16 Press
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2022-04-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781645383147

A rookie social studies teacher overhears a conversation about a World War II tail gunner who survived a four-mile fall from the sky. When the elderly Gene Moran finally shares his saga, John has no idea of the wounds he's reopening.

Finding a Fallen Hero

Finding a Fallen Hero
Author: Bob Korkuc
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780806138923

An author’s quest to discover what really happened to his uncle in World War II To all appearances, Anthony “Tony” Korkuc was just another casualty of World War II. A gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress, Korkuc was lost on a bombing mission over Germany, and his family believed that his body had never been recovered. But when they learned in 1995 that Tony was actually buried at Arlington National Cemetery, his nephew Bob Korkuc set out on a seven-year quest to learn the true fate of an uncle he never knew. Finding a Fallen Hero is a compelling story that blends a wartime drama with a primer on specialized research. Author Bob Korkuc initially set out to learn how his Uncle Tony came to rest at Arlington. In the process, he also unraveled the mystery of what occurred over the skies of Germany half a century ago. Korkuc dug up military documents and private letters and interviewed people in both the United States and Germany. He tracked down surviving crewmembers and even found the brother of the Luftwaffe pilot who downed the B-17. Dozens of photographs help readers envision both Tony Korkuc’s fateful flight and his nephew’s dogged search for the truth. A gripping chronicle of exhaustive research, Finding a Fallen Hero will strike a chord with any reader who has lost a family member to war. And it will inspire others to satisfy their own unanswered questions.

One Man's War

One Man's War
Author: Tommy LaMore
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2002-02-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1461664683

Escaping certain death—not once but several times—lies at the core of the riveting, real-life story of an American soldier during World War II. In One Man's War: The WWII Saga of Tommy LaMore, a B-17 pilot vividly details his experiences in war-ravaged Germany, from the horrific to the romantic and beyond. LaMore's saga began when his plane collided with another B-17 above France and went down. He then entered the French Resistance, where he employed his knowledge of explosives to bomb German operations. After an informant turned him in, he faced a death sentence and was sent to a Polish death camp. LaMore endured the camp's gruesome conditions and eventually escaped, just days before the Germans machine-gunned every man in the camp. LaMore's love story unfolds as he describes liberating a women's slave labor camp and instantly falling in love with one of the detainees. LaMore chopped off her hair, dressed her like a man, and freed her from the camp. After just three days together, the couple agreed to marry once Rosa checked on her family's well being in Poland. They jumped separate trains and never saw each other again. Years later, LaMore learned that Rosa had become a freedom fighter against the Communists and had been executed. Intrigue, passion, and loss imbue LaMore's fascinating tale and make One Man's War a compelling read not only for history aficionados and WWII scholars but also for those who are fascinated by the bittersweet nature of love in times of war.

No Man’S Sky

No Man’S Sky
Author: R. C. Cline
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2015-07-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1496928954

In the fall of 1942, the first year of the war was ending. For young men in Bloomville (Ohio) Township High Schools senior class, school was the last opportunity to be free before graduation, adult responsibility, and manhood. For them and many other young men across the nation, war was about to become a reality, including J. Emerson Krieger. Life was about to turn in a new, dramatic, and uncharted direction. No Mans Sky, by author R.C. Cline, narrates the story of Krieger, a combat flier in World War II. An aerial gunner, he protected his crew and plane with a Browning M-2 machine gun while flying twenty-nine perilous missions over the embattled skies of Germany. Through diaries, letters, photos, and personal records, this memoir chronicles Kriegers service as a waist gunner, the youngest man in his crew. Offering insight into the challenges of war and combat during World War II, No Mans Sky shares the story of Staff Sergeant Krieger and what life was like six miles in the sky in a B-17 bomber. It pays tribute to all of the men and women who have served our country.

Inferno: The True Story of a B-17 Gunner's Heroism and the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History

Inferno: The True Story of a B-17 Gunner's Heroism and the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History
Author: Joe Pappalardo
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-05-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1250264251

There's no higher accolade in the U.S. military than the Medal of Honor, and 472 people received it for their action during World War II. But only one was demoted right after: Maynard Harrison Smith.Smith is one of the most unlikely heroes of the war, where he served in B-17s during the early days of the bombing of France and Germany from England. From his juvenile delinquent past in Michigan, through the war and during the decades after, Smith's life seemed to be a series of very public missteps. The other airmen took to calling the 5-foot, 5-inch airman "Snuffy" after an unappealing movie character. This is the man who, on a tragically mishandled mission over France on May 1, 1943, single-handedly saved the crewman in his stricken B-17. His ordeal is part of a forgotten mission that aircrews came to call the May Day Massacre. The skies over Europe in 1943 were a charnel house for U.S. pilots, who were being led by tacticians surprised by the brutal effectiveness of German defenses. By May 1943 the combat losses among bomb crews were a staggering 40 to 50 percent. This book examines Smith's life in a new light, through the use of exclusive interviews of those who knew him (including fellow MOH recipients and family) as well as public and archival records. This is both a thrilling and horrifying story of the air war over Europe and a fascinating look at one of America's forgotten heroes.

Tale of a Tail Gunner

Tale of a Tail Gunner
Author: Gordon P. Rolfe
Publisher: Markham, Ont. : Stewart. Pub. & Print
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1998
Genre: World War, 1939-1945
ISBN: 9781894183024