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.Publication details: Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press : Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism, c2011Edition: 1st edDescription: xiv, 373 pISBN: 9781574414370 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Scearce, Herman, 1925- | United States. Army -- Biography | Soldiers -- United States -- Biography | Radio operators -- United States -- Biography | Radar operators -- United States -- Biography | B-24 (Bomber) -- History | World War, 1939-1945 -- Pacific Area -- Aerial operations, American | World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area | Pacific Area -- History, Military -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 940.54/4973092 | B LOC classification: D767.9 | .S39 2011Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references 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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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