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Come Fly With Me - Couverture souple

Welton, Barney

 
9781412076586: Come Fly With Me

Synopsis

Written while flying in Europe, it is the story from invasion into France, to surrender in Berlin. These are the scares, worries and the patriotism of a pilot in 1944-45.

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Biographie de l'auteur

On Dec. 24, 1943 Barney Welton began a journey that took him from Fort Wayne Ind. to the D-Day Invasion of France as a lieutenant in the cockpit of a C-47. The twin-engine Army Air Corps cargo planes of his unit, 79th Squadron of the 9th Air Force, were the work-horses that towed gliders full of cannons and jeeps and dropped paratroopers over the battlefields of Europe during World War II. In all, he flew 130 missions, including delivering fuel and supplies to Gen. George Patton's 3rd Army.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Written while flying in Europe, it is the story from invasion into France, to surrender in Berlin. These are the scares, worries and the patriotism of a pilot in 1944-45.

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