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Gooney Bird Driver: The stories of WW2 C-47 pilot Joe D. Maguire and the combat missions that led to his honors and awards decades later

Gooney Bird Driver: The stories of WW2 C-47 pilot Joe D. Maguire and the combat missions that led to his honors and awards decades later

Maguire, Jon A.

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralAir CombatWorld War II

ISBN10: 1943492670
ISBN13: 9781943492671
Publisher: ELM Grove Publishing
Published: Dec 31 2019
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Gooney Bird Driver is a collection of war stories from C-47 pilot Joe D. Maguire, one of the forgotten pilots of the 27th Air Transport Group which carried just about everything across war torn Europe in World War 2, from wounded troops to cans of black and white paint (for adding invasion stripes to aircraft) to the Glenn Miller Band. Joe completed 35 combat missions, racking up hundreds of hours, often under intense enemy fire, but due to a series of administrative SNAFUs, he and his unit weren't officially recognized for their service until almost 50 years after the war ended. Eventually he was awarded the DFC, Air Medal with six Oak Leaf Clusters and the French Legion d'Honneur, among many other accolades for his courage and devotion to duty. These are his stories, illustrated with many of his own personal photographs and mementoes, and told in his own words to his son, noted author and historian Jon A. Maguire.

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