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Flying low : and shot down twice during World War II in a spotter plane / Joseph Furbee Gordon.
- Title
- Flying low : and shot down twice during World War II in a spotter plane / Joseph Furbee Gordon.
- Author
- Gordon, Joseph Furbee, 1922-
- Publication
- Middletown, Conn. : Southfarm Press, c2001.
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- Description
- 216 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Flying a Piper Cub aircraft for artillery fire direction at the front lines against German forces in World War II was hazardous. Shot down twice, Joe Gordon survived to tell what it was like being a pilot of such a plane in combat. The Piper Cub aircraft, flying at the leading edge of American armored divisions, was especially useful as a spotter plane. The advantage of the view a few hunded feet above the leading tanks often resulted in devastating artillery fire raining down upon the enemy just where and when it was needed the most. Joe Gordon fought with the 65th Armored Artillery Battalion in battles from the German border with the Netherlands to the Rhine River and from the Rhine to the Elbe River until almost the end of the European war in May 1945."--Inside back dust cover.
- Subject
- Gordon, Joseph Furbee, 1922-
- United States. Field Artillery > Biography
- United States. Army > Aviation
- 1939-1945
- Air pilots, Military > United States > Biography
- Piper L-4 (Combat liaison airplane)
- World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American
- World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American
- World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Western Front
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Personal narratives – American
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-216) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Prologue -- Growing up -- College Class of '43 -- In the Army, Summer '43 -- In South Carolina and Tennessee -- Pilot training -- On my way -- Liberty ship to England -- Landing in France -- Army Headquarters -- Mission to Brussels -- Maastricht -- Trip to Luxembourg -- Into a combat unit -- Hanging around the base -- A fire mission -- Battling from the Roer to the Rhine -- Shot down across the Rhine -- Blasting the Wehrmacht -- Looting -- My combat days end suddenly -- Hospitals -- After it was over -- Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 0913337439
- LCCN
- ^^2001032231
- OCLC
- 46918346
- SCSB-11389659
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library