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Pathfinder Pioneer: The Memoir of a Lead Bomber Pilot in World War II
Colonel Raymond E. Brim
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Description for Pathfinder Pioneer: The Memoir of a Lead Bomber Pilot in World War II
Hardback. A revealing look at how ordinary citizens were plucked from the hardscrabble 1930s and hurriedly turned into flyers-young men then pitted against each other in deadly machines miles above the ground in Europe. Ray Brim led the way for thousands of his compatriots in the type of "total war" in the skies that we will never see again .. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; BM; HBJK; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 29. Weight in Grams: 636.
In this engaging book we see how an 18-year-old miner shoveling ore from deep in the ground in Utah suddenly found himself, only two years later, 30,000 feet in the air over Nazi Germany, piloting a Flying Fortress in the first wave of America's air counteroffensive in Europe. Like thousands of other young Americans, Ray Brim was plucked by the U.S. Army to be a combat flyer, and was quickly pitted against the hardened veterans of the Luftwaffe. Brim turned out to have a natural knack for flying, however, and was assigned to the select squadron developing ... Read more
In this engaging book we see how an 18-year-old miner shoveling ore from deep in the ground in Utah suddenly found himself, only two years later, 30,000 feet in the air over Nazi Germany, piloting a Flying Fortress in the first wave of America's air counteroffensive in Europe. Like thousands of other young Americans, Ray Brim was plucked by the U.S. Army to be a combat flyer, and was quickly pitted against the hardened veterans of the Luftwaffe. Brim turned out to have a natural knack for flying, however, and was assigned to the select squadron developing ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Casemate Publishers
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
635g
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781612003528
SKU
V9781612003528
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About Colonel Raymond E. Brim
Raymond E. Brim was born in 1922 in the mining town of Dividend, Utah where he grew up the son of the bookkeeper and the town's only nurse. He studied political science at the University of Utah but dropped out to enlist in the Army Air Corps. He trained as a fighter pilot; however was assigned to a B-17 bomber, ... Read more
Reviews for Pathfinder Pioneer: The Memoir of a Lead Bomber Pilot in World War II
Along the way he exposes the reader not only to much detail about the air war over Europe - including hours long missions under fire - and offers many little insights into commonplaces of wartime life and military service at the time, but also to life in contemporary America and Britain, punctuated here and there with some sly humor... this ... Read more