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Dumb but Lucky

Confessions of a P-51 Fighter Pilot in World War II

Autor: Richard K. Curtis
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Carte broșată
Editura: Presidio Press
Disponibilitate: șansă 50%
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62.12 lei
Dick Curtis went against the odds in World War II. He simply should not have made it through. An old...

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Autor
Richard K. Curtis
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Carte broșată
Publicat
2005
Pagini
352
EAN
9780345476364
ISBN
0345476360
Enbook ID
04602657
Editura
Presidio Press
Greutate
188
Dimensiuni
175 x 107 x 26

Descriere completă

Dick Curtis went against the odds in World War II. He simply should not have made it through. An older brother was killed in a B-17 Flying Fortress and a younger brother would be killed in Korea, so just how Curtis survived as a P-51 Mustang pilot gnaws at him to this day. Shipping out to Italy in May, 1944, second lieutenant Curtis was part of the 'hottest' shipment to leave Newport News for he was one of fifty or so emergency replacement pilots heading for combat with less than thirty hours of flight time in their new high-performance aircraft (the official minimum was three hundred hours before a pilot was considered ready for combat). He would soon realize that he was entering a combat zone where there were more aircraft than pilots to man them. Pilots were flying five to six hour missions every day in a constant state of exhaustion. As one of twelve replacement pilots for the 52nd fighter group, half would be shot down within two weeks of their arrival. Ultimately, Curtis would prove to be the sole survivor. This is his dramatic story.

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