Return from Berlin: The Eye of a NavigatorUniv of Wisconsin Press, 3 de jul. 2003 - 183 pàgines During the summer of 1944, the now-legendary American Eighth Air Force was engaged in a ferocious air battle over Europe to bring the Allies victory over the German Third Reich. This is the story of one B-17 navigator and his crewmates, men who faced extraordinary danger with a maturity beyond their years. This vivid and detailed account of combat flying and its psychological toll also recalls the beginning of Robert Grilley’s development as a painter of international renown, as he spends his off-duty time drawing the peaceful Northamptonshire landscape around Deenethorpe airbase. Wakened with flashlights on their faces in the predawn hours, he and his crew repeatedly face the Luftwaffe in battles five miles high, flying through flak "so thick you could get out and walk on it." Stretching their stamina to the limits, they succeed time after time in their missions to bomb munitions works, railyards, the Leüna synthetic oil plant at Merseburg in eastern Germany, the V2 rocket research center at Peenemünde on the distant Baltic Coast, and even to strike Hitler’s capital city, Berlin. But Grilley finds interludes of unexpected grace and restoration on his days off, making serious drawings from nature at the neighboring Yokehill Farm. There he slowly cultivates a friendship with a curious eight-year-old, the lively child Elizabeth, who becomes for the combat flyer a symbol of survival. |
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The Eye of a Navigator Robert Grilley. The Eye of a Navigator S MIN ROBERT GRILLEY World War II / Memoir / Art RETURN FROM BERLIN. RETURN FROM BERLIN Front Cover.
The Eye of a Navigator Robert Grilley. The Eye of a Navigator S MIN ROBERT GRILLEY World War II / Memoir / Art RETURN FROM BERLIN. RETURN FROM BERLIN Front Cover.
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... navigator / Robert Grilley . p . cm . ISBN 0-299-18500-1 ( hardcover : alk . paper ) 1. Grilley , Robert , 1920- . 2. United States . Army Air Forces - Officers - Biography . 3. World War , 1939–1945 — Personal narratives , American . 4 ...
... navigator / Robert Grilley . p . cm . ISBN 0-299-18500-1 ( hardcover : alk . paper ) 1. Grilley , Robert , 1920- . 2. United States . Army Air Forces - Officers - Biography . 3. World War , 1939–1945 — Personal narratives , American . 4 ...
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The Eye of a Navigator Robert Grilley. 233 22 Forgotten Missions Münster 24 Nürnberg 25 After the Last Bomb Run 26 Back in the U.S.A. Appendix A : American Strategic Bombing Appendix B : Missions Appendix C : Robert Grilley's Military ...
The Eye of a Navigator Robert Grilley. 233 22 Forgotten Missions Münster 24 Nürnberg 25 After the Last Bomb Run 26 Back in the U.S.A. Appendix A : American Strategic Bombing Appendix B : Missions Appendix C : Robert Grilley's Military ...
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Myself as an aviation cadet spring 1943 II | 11 |
The 401st Bomb Group H in England at | 18 |
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Interrogation August 1944 | 122 |
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Bombing strike photo railroad marshaling yard Münster | 150 |
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Porter Ham and Robert Grilley September 1992 | 171 |
American Strategic Bombing | 173 |
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Our crew reconstituted as a lead team August 1944 | 104 |
Drawing of Elizabeth at Yokehill Farm age eight | 179 |
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