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Unarmed, Unarmored and Unescorted: A World War 2 C-47 Airborne Troop Carrier Pilot Remembers

Unarmed, Unarmored and Unescorted: A World War 2 C-47 Airborne Troop Carrier Pilot Remembers

Paperback

Aviation & NauticalWorld War II

ISBN10: 1678158801
ISBN13: 9781678158804
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: Feb 20 2020
Pages: 298
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A Merriam Press World War II Memoir 35 photos and documents Inducted in 1942, Johnson went through pilot training, then airborne operations flight training with 27th Troop Carrier Squadron, 10th Troop Carrier Group, then with 49th Troop Carrier Sqdn, 313th Troop Carrier Wing, for training in Sicily. Assigned to 36th TCS, 316th TCG, for D-Day and the Allied advance across Europe. During Operation Market Garden his C-47 was shot down and he became a POW. In addition to detailing his life as a POW, he includes details of what it was like back home for his family, particularly after he was listed as MIA after being shot down, including his parents' efforts at trying to get more details from politicians, the Army and members of his unit in England. This is a detailed personal account by a C-47 pilot who flew Unarmed, Unarmored and Unescorted over the skies of Europe, delivering men and materiel where it was needed to defeat the enemy.

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