Return from Berlin The Eye of a Navigator 1st Edition by Robert Grilley ISBN 978-0299185008 0299185001
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ISBN 10: 0299185001
ISBN 13: 978-0299185008
Author: Robert Grilley
During the summer of 1944, the now-legendary American Eighth Air Force was engaged in a ferocious air battle over Europe to bring the Allies victory over the German Third Reich. This is the story of one B-17 navigator and his crewmates, men who faced extraordinary danger with a maturity beyond their years. This vivid and detailed account of combat flying and its psychological toll also recalls the beginning of Robert Grilley’s development as a painter of international renown, as he spends his off-duty time drawing the peaceful Northamptonshire landscape around Deenethorpe airbase.
Wakened with flashlights on their faces in the predawn hours, he and his crew repeatedly face the Luftwaffe in battles five miles high, flying through flak “so thick you could get out and walk on it.” Stretching their stamina to the limits, they succeed time after time in their missions to bomb munitions works, railyards, the Leüna synthetic oil plant at Merseburg in eastern Germany, the V2 rocket research center at Peenemünde on the distant Baltic Coast, and even to strike Hitler’s capital city, Berlin.
But Grilley finds interludes of unexpected grace and restoration on his days off, making serious drawings from nature at the neighboring Yokehill Farm. There he slowly cultivates a friendship with a curious eight-year-old, the lively child Elizabeth, who becomes for the combat flyer a symbol of survival.
Table of contents:
I The 401st Bomb Group (H) in England at War
2 Paris in June: The First Mission
3 Hamburg
4 Landscapes and Elizabeth
5 Berlin
6 Frevent
7 Montbartier
8 Leipzig I
9 Munich I and II
Leipzig II
II Marlene Dietrich
12 Saint-Lô
13 Merseburg
14 Lead Team
15 Nienburg and Kettering
16 Peenemünde
17 Berlin II
18 Good-bye, Elizabeth
19 Ludwigshafen
20 Ludwigshafen Again
21 Groesbeek
22 Forgotten Missions
23 Münster
24 Nuremberg
25 After the Last Bomb Run
26 Back in the U.S.A.
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