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Van Schaick, John H.; Captain, 70th Bomb Squadron (M), 13th AAF. ListingsIf you cannot find what you want on this page, then please use our search feature to search all our listings. Click on Title to view full description
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van Schaick, John H.; Captain, 70th Bomb Squadron (M), 13th AAF. Surviving Against the Odds: A Bomber Pilot's Memories from World War II in the Solomons and Elsewhere. [Signed].
Schenectady, NY: 2003.
Signed by the Author, ffep. Octavo, paperbound (stiff white, b&w photo illus. wrappers), vi + 267 pp. Very Good, with rubbing to covers & spine. From lower cover: Mid-summer of 1941 army air corps wings looked good to post-adolescent, care-free John van Schaick, but Pearl Harbor claimed his girl and threw him into war-time cadet life. Training to fly the Martin B-dash Crash won him a war bride but cost a best man and other friends. Flying a B-25 Mitchell bomber from Frisco to Fiji, he settled into garrison life at Nadi, where letters preserved marital contact while the squadron readied for marital combat. Endure with him the boredom and stress of strikes, up high and down low, a crash at sea, detachment to New Caldedonia, the temptations of New Zealand and separation from another love, probelms with the Colonel, return to the States and wartime military routines lacking the thrills of combat. All these are facets of this true story of love and war which informs the historian of World War II and satisfies the reader who wonders what the south Pacific war was really like.
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12.50 USD
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