Unsung eagles : true stories of America's citizen airmen in the skies of World War II / Jay A. Stout.

ISBN:

9781612002101

Title:

Author:

Stout, Jay A., 1959- author.

Personal Author:

Stout, Jay A., 1959- author.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations

Contents:

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Prologue; 1 Americans Under Other Flags: John A. Campbell; 2 Tigers in the Fray: Ken Jernstedt; 3 Dive Bombers at Guadalcanal: Jesse Barker; 4 Army Fighters Over Guadalcanal: Julius Jacobson; 5 North Africa and the Pacific: Hamilton McWhorte; 6 the early Fight: John "Jack" Walker; 7 Heroes at Home: Mort Blumenfeld; 8 Civilians in Uniform: Rudolph W. Matz; 9 Americans Over China: Walt Kaestner; 10 Crushing the Reich: Howard "Jack" Dentz; 11 Photo Reconnaissance: Willard Caddell.

12 Attack and Medium Bombers Over Northern Europe: Harry "Bob" Popeney13 Low Level Fury: Roman Ohnemus; 14 Second Battle of the Philippine Sea: Ray Crandall and Richard Deitchman; 15 Downed in Yugoslavia: Howard O. Wilson; 16 Breakout Across Europe: Robert Macdonald; 17 Night Armed Reconnaissance: Alvin E. "Bud" Anderson; 18 The Sharecropper's Son Bombs Hitler: George M. Kesselring; 19 Cold and Deadly Sea: Donald Whitright; 20 Escorts Over Europe: Herman Schonenberg; 21 A Can of Peaches: Emilius Roger Ciampa; Acknowledgments.

Local Note:

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Conference Subject:

World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924

Subject Term:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.

Air pilots, Military -- United States -- Biography.

HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.

Air pilots, Military. (OCoLC)fst00802472

Military operations, Aerial -- American. (OCoLC)fst01710199

Geographic Term:

United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=666742

Publication Date:

2013

Publication Information:

Havertown, Penn. :

Casemate Publishers,

[2013]

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Summary

The nearly half-million American aircrewmen who served during World War II have almost disappeared. And so have their stories.

Award-winning writer and former fighter pilot Jay A. Stout uses Unsung Eagles to save an exciting collection of those accounts from oblivion. These are not rehashed tales from the hoary icons of the war. Rather, they are stories from the masses of largely unrecognized men who--in the aggregate--actually won it. They are the recollections of your Uncle Frank who shared them only after having enjoyed a beer or nine, and of your old girlfriend's grandfather who passed away about the same time she dumped you. And of the craggy guy who ran the town's salvage yard; a dusty, fly-specked B-24 model hung over the counter. These are "everyman" accounts that are important but fast disappearing.

Ray Crandall describes how he was nearly knocked into the Pacific by a heavy cruiser's main battery during the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea. Jesse Barker--a displaced dive-bomber pilot--tells of dodging naval bombardments in the stinking mud of Guadalcanal. Bob Popeney relates how his friend and fellow A-20 pilot was blown out of formation by German antiaircraft fire: "I could see the inside of the airplane--and I could see Nordstrom's eyes. He looked confused...and then immediately he flipped up and went tumbling down."

The combat careers of 22 different pilots from all the services are captured in this crisply written book which captivates the reader not only as an engaging oral history, but also puts personal context into the great air battles of World War II.

Lt. Colonel (Ret.) Jay Stout is a former Marine Corps fighter pilot who flew F-4 Phantoms and F/A-18 Hornets during a military career from 1981 to 2001. A graduate of Purdue University, he has also written FORTRESS PLOESTI, FIGHTER GROUP and THE MEN WHO KILLED THE LUFTWAFFE .