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Author : Frederick Fitzpatrick Rainsford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780948807039
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of an Accidental Airman written by Frederick Fitzpatrick Rainsford and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick B. Monahan
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440125627
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of a Deployed Airman written by Patrick B. Monahan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost as if it were a dream, day number 360 came and I was transported into another world. The flights were long, but within just a couple of days, I found myself back at my original starting point-Salt Lake City, Utah. Before arriving in Salt Lake City though, I was greeted by my parents and my in-laws at Baltimore-Washington International (BWI) airport. As I scrambled through the baggage claim area and customs, I made my way towards my release from the regimented deployment world. Both sets of parents were poised and ready to greet me and my friends returning from overseas. Upon catching a glimpse of me, they popped out of their seats and began waving small American flags in my general direction. It was very nice to see them and it was a nice patriotic sight. I arrived at the airport at approximately midnight and I was hungry, so we all went out to eat at an all night diner in Arlington, Virginia. It was about 0300 in the morning when we finished up our meal and headed back to my in-laws house to sleep. I caught an 1800 flight the next day which brought me to Salt Lake City at approximately 2300 that night. The second leg of my flight from Phoenix, Arizona was very comfortable and relaxing. Wearing my DCUs, one of the flight attendant's decided to move me to First Class. Not only did this provide me with more comfort, but it also provided me an opportunity to sit next to her husband who had joined her on the flight. I had a really nice conversation with the flight attendant's husband throughout the flight. Then, as we landed in Salt Lake City, the flight attendant announced to all of the people on the flight that I had just returned home from the war in Afghanistan. Everyone began to clap and I received the honor of being the first person off of the airplane. I then began my mad dash towards my family. People noticed that I was in uniform, holding two little bears (one for each of my girls), and I was practically running, so everyone pretty much got out of my way. Within minutes, I saw Melanie holding a "Welcome Home" poster and my girls waving small American flags. It was a very impressive and precious sight. I scooped up both of my daughters in my hands and I embraced the whole family. The nice thing was that Suzanna didn't cry...everyone seemed to at least have some idea who I was this time. In fact, Annabelle wouldn't hardly let me go out of her sight for the next few days. I learned several days later that Annabelle had a lot of trouble sleeping while I was gone...which was attributed to me not being there and her not knowing when I would come home. This latter fact is what changed my mindset from wanting to go back to the combat zone any time soon. While I was gone, I made the most of my deployment and I even learned to enjoy many aspects of the adventure. However, when you see the effects of being gone on the homefront, nothing else seems to matter but family. Would I go again? Absolutely. But, I would certainly wait for my number to come up or for someone to come asking for my assistance a little more passionately. When I arrived at my actual home in the Ogden, Utah area, I quickly noticed several decorations on the property. I hadn't expected such extravagance, but I was certainly impressed by what I saw. As I walked around the house and the yard in my civilians clothes the next day, surrounded by my family, I finally felt like I was home.
Author : Najeeb E. Halaby
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Crosswinds written by Najeeb E. Halaby and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dave Birrell
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0968044050
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Baz written by Dave Birrell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781480100862
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of an Airman written by David Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-03 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Memoir is about the life of airman Milo Cooper and his life in the Air Force at his first base, his deployment and his departure from the Air Force. It follows the relationships that would influence him, the emotional turmoil of his whirlwind marriage, the birth of his son and the death of his family.
Author : Jonathon Benjamin (US Air Force, retired)
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (86 download)
Download or read book American Airman written by Jonathon Benjamin (US Air Force, retired) and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Airman: A Memoir of a Wounded Veteran By: Jonathan Benjamin (US Air Force, retired) American Airman, is an unflinching look at one veteran’s life. Meet Ryan Cureton, a young African American man at the cusp of adulthood. His childhood was a tumultuous fight to stay afloat in a toxic home. When his academic scholarship to college runs out, he must choose: will he stay under the reigns of abusive parents, or strike out and forge a new path for himself in the military? Ryan ultimately joins the Air Force, where he serves with distinction, until he is seriously injured overseas. Now medically retired from service and dealing with the lingering overseas. Now medically retired from service and dealing with the lingering effects of a severe traumatic brain injury, Ryan finds his unlikely healing in the world of theatre, first as an usher, and later, as an award-winning playwright.
Author : S. P. MacKenzie
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700624694
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Flying against Fate written by S. P. MacKenzie and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, Allied casualty rates in the air were high. Of the roughly 125,000 who served as aircrew with Bomber Command, 59,423 were killed or missing and presumed killed—a fatality rate of 45.5%. With odds like that, it would be no surprise if there were as few atheists in cockpits as there were in foxholes; and indeed, many airmen faced their dangerous missions with beliefs and rituals ranging from the traditional to the outlandish. Military historian S. P. MacKenzie considers this phenomenon in Flying against Fate, a pioneering study of the important role that superstition played in combat flier morale among the Allies in World War II. Mining a wealth of documents as well as a trove of published and unpublished memoirs and diaries, MacKenzie examines the myriad forms combat fliers' superstitions assumed, from jinxes to premonitions. Most commonly, airmen carried amulets or talismans—lucky boots or a stuffed toy; a coin whose year numbers added up to thirteen; counterintuitively, a boomerang. Some performed rituals or avoided other acts, e.g., having a photo taken before a flight. Whatever seemed to work was worth sticking with, and a heightened risk often meant an upsurge in superstitious thought and behavior. MacKenzie delves into behavior analysis studies to help explain the psychology behind much of the behavior he documents—not slighting the large cohort of crew members and commanders who demurred. He also looks into the ways in which superstitious behavior was tolerated or even encouraged by those in command who saw it as a means of buttressing morale. The first in-depth exploration of just how varied and deeply felt superstitious beliefs were to tens of thousands of combat fliers, Flying against Fate expands our understanding of a major aspect of the psychology of war in the air and of World War II.
Author : Terry O'Halloran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781728375281
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (752 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of an Airman written by Terry O'Halloran and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before you decide to buy this book, please don't expect any hero type action. You will find none. If you're easily offended then save your money, This is the side of the Air Force you will not read about. Its full-on alcohol fueled antics on and off duty. The highs and lows of military life but also the mad episodes that made up the RAF before PC changed it. You will laugh at the stunts he pulled, sigh at how incredibly stupid he was to throw away a promising career. Be angry at influence over his junior peers, but you will enjoy the trip as you follow him during his six years in uniform and the friends he made. This Air Force has gone as the world changed but the memories are captured in these pages for the reader to enjoy and share his experience.
Author : Charles Messenger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135959706
Total Pages : 985 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Reader's Guide to Military History written by Charles Messenger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 985 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains some 600 entries on a range of topics from ancient Chinese warfare to late 20th-century intervention operations. Designed for a wide variety of users, it encompasses general reviews of aspects of military organization and science, as well as specific wars and conflicts. The book examines naval and air warfare, as well as significant individuals, including commanders, theorists, and war leaders. Each entry includes a listing of additional publications on the topic, accompanied by an article discussing these publications with reference to their particular emphases, strengths, and limitations.
Author : David Renner
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1467825220
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (678 download)
Download or read book MEMOIRS OF A FOOL: written by David Renner and published by Author House. This book was released on 2007-10-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MEMOIRS OF A FOOL: Volume One is highly unique. It highlights the failures of the memoirist, David Renner, rather than his successes. And as such, it strikes a chord of familiarity in all of us. From the President of the United States on down, the life of each of us is dominated by failures, many of which begin as successes. For every triumph in life there is a corresponding defeat, something we might note before we rush in, fools, to our next grand venture. Renner doesn’t rush into anything. He chronicles the inevitable setbacks in his life with a steady, stoic humor. To him, existence was summed up by the Firesign Theatre in 1971, when they released their signature album, I Think We’re All Bozos on This Bus. With this thought as his anchor, Renner neither soars with his successes nor collapses with his failures. He simply glides or stumbles through his paces as the lead actor in a comedy. There are serious moments in Renner’s story, which he traces back to Transylvania in Hungary, the birthplace of his parents. There is a dark family secret that he doesn’t learn until, at seventeen, he’s ready to go out into the world. There is his service in Air Force Intelligence inside Communist territory at the height of the Cold War. There is the surreal sight of Detroit, where he is living in 1967, on fire during the riots there. There are the strange days in the streets during the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1968. And there is the decade-long drug addiction and the pain of lost love. But in this working-class saga the light moments outweigh the heavy ones, and ultimately Renner’s self-deprecating sense of humor brings him success in one important respect, as a human being.
Author : Michael Brian Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780977892099
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (92 download)
Download or read book November Finally Came written by Michael Brian Martin and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J E Hoare
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136796177
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Embassies in the East written by J E Hoare and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text traces the history of three Far Eastern embassies through the vicissitudes of war and revolution against the background of an apparent steady decline of Western influence in Asia. Dr Hoare tracks the key events and people shaping the British view of Asia. Key 'dramatis personae' are Sir Harry Parkes, British Minister to Japan, China and Korea; Sir Ernest Satow, the student interpreter who became Minister in Tokyo and Peking, and in more recent years, Sir Charles Eliot, lover of big cars and scholar of Buddhism. This book will interest those wishing to know more about all aspects of Britain in East Asia, whether in the tense years of the Boxer troubles in China, during the wartime repatriation of Britons from Japan and the Japanese Empire, in the traumas of the Korean War, or during the excess of China's Cultural Revolution.
Author : Norman Laird
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781658041232
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (412 download)
Download or read book An Airman's Memoir written by Norman Laird and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Airman's description of his experiences and sacrifices that he and thousands of other veterans make in defense of our beautiful country.
Author : George W. Goodrow
Publisher : Xlibris Us
ISBN 13 : 9781984516039
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (16 download)
Download or read book One Airman's Story written by George W. Goodrow and published by Xlibris Us. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time. Author will provide once available.
Author : Robert S. Crouse
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781426938467
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (384 download)
Download or read book There I Was ? written by Robert S. Crouse and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When five-year-old Robert Crouse saw a 1910 Curtis pusher biplane fly over his hometown in Tennessee, he was immediately mesmerized. After he watched the plane gently land behind the trees a short distance from his house, he informed anyone who would listen that one day he would fly a plane just like that one. In his memoir "There I Was ..., " Crouse chronicles how his fascination with airplanes grew throughout his childhood and eventually led him on an unforgettable journey as a young airman during World War II.When Crouse was a seventeen-year-old high school senior, the United States became firmly embroiled in World War II. Although he was too young and suffered from a congenital heart condition, Crouse could hardly wait to get into uniform. As Crouse recounts the details of how he was eventually drafted in 1943 despite his medical challenges and later flew thirty-one missions in B-25s, he provides a real-life glimpse into what it was like for thousands of young men to serve their country in perilous times."There I Was ..." couples historical photographs with personal anecdotes and provides a captivating narrative sure to entertain World War II and airplane buffs alike.
Author : Robert Rhodes James
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Robert Boothby written by Robert Rhodes James and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1991 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of this probing biography is the complex relationship between Churchill and Boothby, who began his career as Churchill's youngest protege. A brilliant orator, Boothby was a likely candidate for Prime Minister until a devastating financial scandal and love affair with another man's wife diminished his status. 16 pages of photographs.
Author : Anne Deighton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349107565
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Britain and the Cold War written by Anne Deighton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection challenges views of the Cold War as a purely bipolar affair, involving only the United States and the Soviet Union. It shows that Britain took a lead and continued to play an part in a drive to contain communism and that she tried to keep her own position as a great world power.
