First work originally published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1975; 2nd work originally published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1977. NASMAIN copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley ...
Describes the glider missions in European airborne operations during World War II and the exploits of the pilots who participated in them. https://siris-libraries.si ...
Two days before his 103rd birthday and 80 years after the end of World War II, Maj. Dwayne Nickerson sat down with News 8 to recount his service. It all began on an infamous day in 1941.
After pulling out of a 500-miles-an-hour nosedive, the veteran pilot, Jerry Neal, said he suddenly saw a rock bar on the English Channel 'like God put it there' ...
Each time Noel Addy flew his World War II glider over Europe, commanders predicted he'd live only 18 more seconds. Towed behind a transport plane, Addy's armorless and gunless glider floated between ...