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Not home for Christmas : a day in the life of the Mighty Eighth / collected and compiled by John Meurs.
- Title
- Not home for Christmas : a day in the life of the Mighty Eighth / collected and compiled by John Meurs.
- Publication
- Brandon, MS : Quail Ridge Press, c2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | D790.22 8th .N68 2009 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Meurs, John.
- Description
- 542 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "When author John Meurs was a nine-year-old schoolboy living in Nazi-occupied Holland, an American B-17 bomber crashed behind his house near the village of Apeldoorn. The date was Sunday, November 26, 1944. Meurs always wanted to know more about what happened in the air on that Thanksgiving Sunday. So, more than sixty years later ... he started researching the B-17. He quickly found that the bomber was part of the 8th Air Force Air Combat Command. Meurs findings intrigued him ... and after discovering many interesting facts, Meurs focused his research on the 34 heavy bombers of the Mighty Eighth that were lost that day. He collected the personal stories of veterans who lived through it, families of veterans lost, and witnesses of the crashes. These first-hand recollections, captured in this book, provide a compelling and terrifying account of the reality of war. Thanks to the noble men of the Mighty Eighth who would not be home for Christmas in 1944 and their comrades in arms, many people the world over now live in peace and freedom"--Page [4] of cover.
- Alternative Title
- Day in the life of the Mighty Eighth
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Personal narratives – American
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Publisher's note -- Preface -- Roll of Honor -- Bombers lost -- Introduction -- 351st Bomb Group, 511th Bomb Squadron (Boettcher) -- 388th Bomb Group, 563rd Bomb Squadron (Daniels) -- 398th Bomb Group, 601st Bomb Squadron (Rolfe) -- 398th Bomb Group, 600th Bomb Squadron (Douglas) -- 398th Bomb Group, 600th Bomb Squadron (Pope) -- 91st Bomb Group, 324th Bomb Squadron (Flint) -- 91st Bomb Group, 323rd Bomb Squadron (Stevens) -- 91st Bomb Group, 324th Bomb Squadron (Miller) -- 305th Bomb Group, 365th BombSquadron (Schmidt) -- 303rd Bomb Group, 358th Bomb Squadron (Jameson) -- 381st Bomb Group, 532nd Bomb Squadron (Smith) -- 390th Bomb Group, 568th Bomb Squadron -- 487th Bomb Group, 839th Bomb Squadron (Davidson) ; Ringmasters, Misburg -- 491st Bomb Group, 853rd Bomb Squadron (Hite) -- 491st Bomb Group, 853rd Bomb Squadron (Stevens) -- 491st Bomb Group, 853rd Bomb Squadron (Cloughly) -- 491st Bomb Group, 853rd Bomb Squadron (Bennett) -- 491st Bomb Group, 853rd Bomb Squadron (Moore) -- 491st Bomb Group, 853rd Bomb Squadron (Stewart) -- 491st Bomb Group, 853rd Bomb Squadron (Butler)) -- 491st Bomb Group, 853rd Bomb Squadron (Ecklund) -- 491st Bomb Group, 854th Bomb Squadron (Simons) -- 491st Bomb Group, 854th Bomb Squadron (Meuse) -- 491st Bomb Group, 854th Bomb Squadron (Warczak) -- 491st Bomb Group, 854th Bomb Squadron (Wynn) -- 491st Bomb Group, 854th Bomb Squadron (Weitz) -- 491st Bomb Group, 854th Bomb Squadron (Vukovich) -- 445th Bomb Group, 701st Bomb Squadron (Boykin) -- 445th Bomb Group, 701st Bomb Squadron (Barringer) -- 445th Bomb Group, 703rd Bomb Squadron (Harris) -- 445th Bomb Group, 703rd Bomb Squadron (Snow) -- 445th Bomb Group, 703rd Bomb Squadron (McPartland) -- 389th Bomb Group, 566th Bomb Squadron (Hicks) -- Epilogue -- About the author.
- ISBN
- 9781934193310
- 1934193313
- LCCN
- ^^2009014950
- OCLC
- 318243565
- SCSB-11746200
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library