Countdown! - Buch
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Buch
Originaltitel
Originalsprache
nicht angegeben
Erstveröffentlichung
1990
Band (Reihe)
-
Typ
Buch
Genre
Biographische Literatur: Autobiographie
Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
Übersetzt von
-
Verlag
Jahr
1990
Seitenanzahl
183
ISBN
0945575173
EAN
9780945575177
Ausgabe
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
Unbekannt
Inhalt/Klappentext
Countdown! is a book about the air war against Nazi Germany and thr American bombers who blasted the heavily defended military installations, factories, oil refineries, and other strategic targets in broad-daylight raids.
Fred Koger was barely twenty years old when he arrived in 1944 to begin his thirty-five combat missions. Koger and his comrades knew the long hours of waiting, miles above the earth, as the massive armada of bombers droned on toward the day's objective. They experienced the excitement and fear as the bombs dropped, while all around the flak burst and machine guns chattered, and the long return flight home to the base.
Written vividly and honestly, Countdown! is a vivid re-creation of Americans who found themselves abruptly caught up in the tumult, danger, and stress of global combat.
Fred Koger was barely twenty years old when he arrived in 1944 to begin his thirty-five combat missions. Koger and his comrades knew the long hours of waiting, miles above the earth, as the massive armada of bombers droned on toward the day's objective. They experienced the excitement and fear as the bombs dropped, while all around the flak burst and machine guns chattered, and the long return flight home to the base.
Written vividly and honestly, Countdown! is a vivid re-creation of Americans who found themselves abruptly caught up in the tumult, danger, and stress of global combat.