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Author Brown, James E., author.

Title Tail-end Charley : stories from an American fighter pilot in World War II / James E. Brown.

Publication Info. [Overland Park, Kansas?] : [James E. Brown], [2017]
©2017

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection  940.544973 B813Bb 2017    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 405 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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Summary On his nineteenth birthday, James E. Brown tries to fake to his flight instructor that he has flown before. On his twenty-first birthday, Brown is on his way home after logging eighty-five missions in a P-47 fighter over Italy, France, and Germany. Brown's stories surrounding his training and combat experiences in World War II reveal brushes with death, continuous peril and, ultimately, a coming of age for a young man whose freshman year in college becomes instead a heroic engagement with one of the fiercest enemies his country has ever encountered. Ever dutiful to the mother who tells him to "write it down, Jamie," Brown notes his experiences in the journal she provides and adds detail later to deliver a firsthand account of life as a pilot in the final months of combat within the European Theater. Serving as Tail-End Charley-the last man out-in most of the missions he flew, Brown's job was to record results for the interrogation officers afterward. But Brown offers much more insight in this memoir. Follow his triumphs and travails with colleagues who become lifelong compatriots during an indelible period in American history.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American -- Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Europe.
United States. Army. Air Corps.
ISBN 9781542964302
154296430X

 
    
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