The All-American Crew (eBook)

A True Story of a World War II Bomber and the Men Who Flew It

Russell Low (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
Linden Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-61035-388-5 (ISBN)

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An inspiring true story of teamwork, camaraderie, and Americans at war.

On January 23, 1943, a B-24 Liberator bomber and its crew of ten men disappeared without a trace in New Guinea. Their families never knew what happened to them. Now, 80 years later, their long-forgotten letters and dusty photographs finally tell their story in The All-American Crew.

Stanley Low did not want to be a hero and would not have welcomed the description. A Chinese American kid from Salem, Oregon, who wasn’t yet old enough to vote or drink beer, Stan joined the army because there was a war on and it was his duty. As Stan trains to become a bomber nose gunner and heads into combat, he experiences loneliness, racism, his first beer, his first romance, and the horrors of war.

Stan also builds tight bonds with his crewmates, who come from every American ethnicity and walk of life, including Irish American pilot Scott Regan and Jewish American bombardier Jerome Lesser. The ten men of Stan's bomber crew—rich and poor, from old American families and recent immigrants—form an all-American crew whose dedication to the country and their team elevates them above their individual differences.

As the war heats up, Stan, his crewmates, and many other hastily trained bomber crews fly off dirt runways in the South Pacific tropics, thousands of miles from the nearest allied base, fighting the relentless forces of the Japanese Empire. The loss of life mounts at an alarming rate as many crews fail to return from missions. Those who survive quickly learn to fight. Now battle-hardened veterans, Stan and his crew fly toward their final rendezvous with destiny, willing to sacrifice everything for their country and each other.

Celebrating American diversity and ideals of honor, bravery, and freedom, The All-American Crew is a magnificent true story of men at war.

Inhalt

Preface
Chapter 1: A Pilgrimage to the Mission Home—1942
Chapter 2: Gunnery School and Weddings
Chapter 3: Air Corps Cadet Training—January—April 1942
Chapter 4 : Sunny Santa Ana—Ground School and Movie Stars—April 1942
Chapter 5: Into the Wild Blue Yonder—May—September 1942
Chapter 6: Bombardier School—May–July 1942
Chapter 7: Seeing America from a Troop Train—August 1942
Chapter 8: B-24 Liberator Training in Spokane—August–September 1942
Chapter 9: B-24 Liberator Training in Topeka—September 1942
Chapter 10: The 10th Man—A Short Trip Home
Chapter 11: Long Beach, California—October 1942
Chapter 12: Hamilton Army Air Field—October 1942
Chapter 13: Liberators and Hula Girls—Hawaii—October 1942
Chapter 14 American Aviators in the Bush: Iron Range Australia—November 1942
Chapter 15: First Mission—15 November 1942
Chapter 16: Between Mission—Iron Range December 1942
Chapter 17: In the Heat of Battle—December 1942
Chapter 18: Holidays in the Bush—December 1942–January 1943
Chapter 19: The Letters Home—January 1943
Chapter 20: Port Moresby, New Guinea—January 1943
Chapter 21: 20th Mission—Lighthouses & Cargo Ships 19 January 1943
Chapter 22: One More "Rekky"—Search for McMurria—22 January 1943
Chapter 23: The Anniversary—March 1943
Chapter 24: Schofield Barracks—April 1943
Chapter 25 : Flying Leathernecks and Aviation Engineers on Saipan—June 1944
Chapter 26: Saipan Invasion June 1944
Chapter 27: Saipan Arrival 804th Aviation Engineers 1944
Chapter 28: Saipan Landing D plus 5—20 June 1944
Chapter 29 : Marine Observation Squadron VM0-4
Chapter 30: Japanese Counter Attack on Aslito Airfield—26 June 1944
Chapter 31: Drawn Home—1986
Epilogue
Afterword
Acknowledgments

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.4.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 170 black & white photographs
• Verlagsort: Fresno
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: Air Force • Army • aviation • B-24 • Bomber • Chinese American • Disappearances • Diversity • History • Jewish American • Memoir • Military • military aviation • military history • military nonfiction • Missing in Action • Narrative nonfiction • New Guinea • Pacific Theater of Operations • Second World War • U.S. Army • US Army • U.S. Army Air Force • US Army Air Force • war • War in the Pacific • World War 2 • World War II • World War Two • WWII
• ISBN-10: 1-61035-388-9 / 1610353889
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61035-388-5 / 9781610353885