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Through a Pilot's Window: Adventures Piloting a B-24 Bomber in the 9Th and 344Th Bomber Squadron in Wwii During the Asian-Pacific, European and African Middle Eastern Campaigns, 1942-1945
Through a Pilot's Window: Adventures Piloting a B-24 Bomber in the 9Th and 344Th Bomber Squadron in Wwii During the Asian-Pacific, European and African Middle Eastern Campaigns, 1942-1945
Through a Pilot's Window: Adventures Piloting a B-24 Bomber in the 9Th and 344Th Bomber Squadron in Wwii During the Asian-Pacific, European and African Middle Eastern Campaigns, 1942-1945
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Through a Pilot's Window: Adventures Piloting a B-24 Bomber in the 9Th and 344Th Bomber Squadron in Wwii During the Asian-Pacific, European and African Middle Eastern Campaigns, 1942-1945

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A stick of five bombs left the lead ship. I concentrated on our own bomb-release signal. It should flicker now -- no -- now! What in hell was the matter?<\p>

Just as the Major swung into a 90-degree turn, our ship jumped. The bombs were gone! The electric releases must have frozen, and now the bombardier had salvoed. Some spot of open water would be broiled up. I whipped a glance at Eds face. That was all I needed: I wondered how much it would take for a man to explode at 24,000 feet and what a mess it would be for the co-pilot to work through! I was too mad to talk, but Ed was trying, and the words that spouted from his red face into the green oxygen mask fairly blew the mask off his face. The garbled mess the throat microphone allowed to boil into the interphone must have thawed out those rear gunners! Now the two right motors dropped earthward in a wingover as we held our place in formation. We twisted and dived for three thousand feet to avoid the black puffs now spouting around us.

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PublisheriUniverse
Release dateNov 23, 2016
ISBN9781532001284
Through a Pilot's Window: Adventures Piloting a B-24 Bomber in the 9Th and 344Th Bomber Squadron in Wwii During the Asian-Pacific, European and African Middle Eastern Campaigns, 1942-1945
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Lt. Col. William McKean Gilbert

Lt. Col. William McKean Gilbert earned a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and played tackle for De Pauw University football team. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1941 and piloted the Eager Beaver B-24 bomber in the 9th Squadron in WWII during the European, Asian-Pacific, African Middle Eastern campaigns, as well as one of the camouflaged Pink Elephants of the 344th over the Sahara Desert. Gilbert became Lt. Col. while serving in the 6th Air Force Reserve in Alameda, CA. Died in 1994

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