To Kingdom Come: An Epic Saga of Survival in the Air War Over Germany(ISBN=9780451232274) azw3 chm 地址 kindle 阿里云 下载 umd pdf

　　The breathtaking, never-before-told, true story of a historic

air- force bombing mission in 1943 Germany.

On September 6, 1943, three hundred and thirty-eight B-17 "Flying

Fortresses" of the American Eighth Air Force took off from England,

bound for Stuttgart, Germany, to bomb Nazi weapons factories.

Dense clouds obscured the targets, and one commander's critical

decision to circle three times over the city-and its deadly

flak-would prove disastrous. Forty-five planes went down that day,

and hundreds of men were lost or missing.

Focusing on first-person accounts of six of the B-17 airmen,

award- winning author Robert Mrazek vividly re-creates the fierce

air battle- and reveals the astonishing valor of the airmen who

survived being shot down, and the tragic fate of those who did

not.

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　　Robert J. Mrazek is a military historian,

award-winning novelist, former U.S. congressman, and Navy

veteran.

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Unlike so many of General Travis's missions, the Mainz raid was relatively uneventful. The 2303rd's bombs were dropped squarely on the target. They were on their way home when something untoward occurred that would soon become a permanent part of group lore.

A directive had recently been issued that pilots should not leave their cockpits to urinate if their piss tubes were frozen during a high-altitude flight. It was recommended that the pilots crack open their side window, get on their haunches, and passthe urine through the open window, where it would be carried away by the slipstream.

When Captain Eisenhart experienced an urge to urinate on the way back to Molesworth, he opened his window and attempted to comply with the directive. Unfortunately, General Travis was smoking a cigaret...

In 1998, he participated in a ceremony in Schweinfurt, Germany, along with a few of the surviving German veterans of the city's Luftwaffe antiaircraft batteries, to honor the men of both sides in the conflict. Inscribed on the stone monument are the words "Dedicated by some who witnessed the tragedy of war, now united in friendship and the hope for lasting peace among all people."

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The breathtaking, never-before-told, true story of a historic air- force bombing mission in 1943 Germany.

On September 6, 1943, three hundred and thirty-eight B-17 "Flying Fortresses" of the American Eighth Air Force took off from England, bound for Stuttgart, Germany, to bomb Nazi weapons factories.

Dense clouds obscured the targets, and one commander's critical decision to circle three times over the city-and its deadly flak-would prove disastrous. Forty-five planes went down that day, and hundreds of men were lost or missing.

Focusing on first-person accounts of six of the B-17 airmen, award- winning author Robert Mrazek vividly re-creates the fierce air battle- and reveals the astonishing valor of the airmen who survived being shot down, and the tragic fate of those who did not.