Finish forty and home [electronic resource] : the untold World War II story of B-24s in the Pacific / Phil Scearce.
Material type: TextSeries: Mayborn literary nonfiction series ; no. 5. | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press : Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism, 2011. 2015)Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (xiv, 373 p. :) illContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781574414370
- Scearce, Herman, 1925-
- United States. Army -- Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Pacific Area -- Aerial operations, American
- B-24 bomber -- History
- Radar operators -- United States -- Biography
- Radio operators -- United States -- Biography
- Soldiers -- United States -- Biography
- Pacific Area -- History, Military -- 20th century
- 940.54/4973092 B 22
- D767.9 .S39 2011
Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-360) and index.
Introduction -- Sergeant at seventeen -- Hawaii -- First mission -- Nauru -- Air raid -- Chance -- May 1943 -- The squadron's objectives -- The Pacific preferred -- Softening Tarawa -- Forever consequences -- Losing altitude fast -- Back to Hawaii -- Last flights -- Ask the man who owns one -- The meaning of boxes -- Guam -- Back in business -- Halfway to forty -- January 1945 -- Endings for some -- Epilogue.
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