We Had A Job To Do: A Basic History of World War II Through The Eyes of Those Who Served

ISBN-13: 9781517462857 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 216 str.

Theresa Anzaldua

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We Had A Job To Do -- A Basic History of World War II Through The Eyes of Those Who Served. This heartfelt tribute to veterans is history that reads like fiction. Based on interviews the author conducted herself, the book weaves the veterans' personal stories into the basic facts of the war. Follow a soldier who fought in Patton's Third Army and who landed on Omaha Beach at 9 a.m. on D-Day; a female Army Air Forces nurse who made helping veterans her life's work; a fighter pilot who flew with the African-American unit known as the Tuskegee Airmen and who was on one of the two teams that won the first Top Gun meet after the war; a guard in a top-secret intelligence base outside of Washington, D.C. where German weapons scientists were interrogated; a female aircraft mechanic who served in the Navy and is still active in veterans affairs seventy years later; a gunner on a B-17 heavy bomber who was shot down and spent fourteen months in German prison camps; an airman in General Curtis LeMay's 20th Air Force, the unit that dropped the atomic bombs, and more. Get to know some of the patriots who served in World War and feel proud of America