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From campus to combat : a college boy becomes a WWII Army flier / James Alter.

Title
From campus to combat : a college boy becomes a WWII Army flier / James Alter.
Author
Alter, James.
Publication
Philadelphia : Garrett County Press, 2006.

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236 p. : ill.; 18 cm.
Subject
  • Alter, James
  • United States. Bombardment Squadron, 780th
  • United States. Army Air Forces > Officers > Biography
  • 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Europe
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American
  • Bombardiers > United States > Biography
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • Personal narratives – American
Note
  • Revision of: We were so young. Philadelphia : Xlibris, 2003.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Campus Cannon Fodder -- My Carnal Roommate -- Love Comes to Me -- The Last Summer -- The Process Begins -- I Enlist Back to School, Briefly -- This is the Army, Mr. Alter -- You HAVE to Be a Pilot -- Brace, Mister -- Into the Wild Blue Yonder -- An Ageeable Interlude -- Bang-Bang-Bang -- Navigator! Where the Hell Are We? -- Bombs Away -- The Big-Assed Bird Off to a War -- We Arrive at a War -- Frst Mission, I -- First Mission, II -- Squadron Life, I -- Squadron Life, II -- Tovarisch -- Remorse, Fear, and Prayer -- Final Days of My War -- The Long Passage Home -- Call Me Mister.
ISBN
  • 1891053817 (alk. paper)
  • 9781891053818
LCCN
^^2005036757
OCLC
  • 62738562
  • SCSB-13307038
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library