Research Catalog

Title

The wrong stuff : the adventures and misadventures of an 8th Air Force aviator / Truman Smith.

Author

Smith, Truman, 1924-

Publication

Norman, OK : University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.

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Details

Description

358 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Between April and July 1944, Truman J. Smith flew thirty-five bombing missions over France and Germany. He was only twenty years old. Although barely adults, Smith and his peers worried about cramming a lifetime's worth of experience into every free night, each knowing he would probably not survive the next bombing mission. Written with blunt honesty, wry humor, and insight, The Wrong Stuff is Smith's gripping memoir of that harrowing time. In a new preface, the author comments with equal honesty and humor on the impact this book has had on his life."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Smith, Truman, 1924-
• United States. Air Force, 8th > Biography
• 1939-1945
• Geschichte 1944
• World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American
• World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American
• World War, 1939-1945 > Germany

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Personal narratives – American
• Personal narratives.

Note

• "Red River books."
• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Who, Where, When -- The Flank -- The Fighters -- The Weather -- The Worst -- A Busy Week -- London Town -- Pre D-Day -- Jake -- Buzz Bombs -- Up and Down -- Top Secret -- Flak Farm -- Not Yet -- Breakdowns -- A Little Mistake -- Skunk Hollow -- The Bulge -- Encore -- Deja Vu -- Skywar -- Missions.

ISBN

0806134224 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001055699

OCLC

• 48536607
• SCSB-11361275

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library