The Final Mission of Bottoms Up : A World War II Pilot's Story /
On November 18, 1944, the end of the war in Europe finally in sight, American co-pilot Lieutenant Lee Lamar struggled alongside pilot Randall Darden to keep Bottoms Up, their B-24J Liberator, in the air. Over Pula in what is now Croatia, they were once more hit by German fire. Lamar all but surrende...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
University of Missouri Press,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Over Udine, Italy
- Krvavici, Croatia
- The 1930s
- 1941-42
- The crew
- Overseas at last
- Spinazzola, Italy
- First combat
- Finally ... mission countdown
- It's not all combat ...
- Mission after mission after ...
- 18 November 1944
- What hath God wrought
- "Vor you, der var iss ofer"
- Interrogation and isolation
- 8 December 1944-1 May 1945
- 30 April-20 June 1945
- Home at last
- Olathe, Kansas
- The crew
- Short focused
- The real work
- Pula Croatia.