Bomber Pilot: A Memoir of World War II
Bomber Pilot: A Memoir of World War II by Philip Ardery
English | April 25, 1996 | ISBN: 0813108667, 0813113792 | EPUB | 280 pages | 5.5 MB
English | April 25, 1996 | ISBN: 0813108667, 0813113792 | EPUB | 280 pages | 5.5 MB
"The sky was full of dying airplanes" as American Liberator bombers struggled to return to North Africa after their daring low-level raid on the oil refineries of Ploesti. They lost 446 airmen and 53 planes, but Philip Ardery's plane came home. This pilot was to take part in many more raids on Hitler's Europe, including air cover for the D-Day invasion of Normandy.
This vivid firsthand account, available now for the first time in paper, records one man's experience of World War II air warfare. Throughout, Ardery testifies to the horror of world war as he describes his fear, his longing for home, and his grief for fallen comrades. Bomber Pilot is a moving contribution to American history.