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Tucker, Terrence L.

 
9780595710157: Sardonic Satisfaction: Uncle Bomby Bob's Letters Home
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ISBN 10: 0595710158 ISBN 13: 9780595710157
Casa editrice: Iuniverse Inc, 2007

Sinossi

This book consists of a series of letters written by a young man during WWII. He went from banker to bombardier. He underwent starvation, depravation and his moral conflict with killing the enemy to a fear of being able to do his duty. Dead bodies laying around, flies, filth, hurricanes, no smokes, no candy, no female companionship.These are some of the things he lived with all the while flying in a cramped nose of a B-24 bomber with his pet dog beside him on all forty eight missions.

He earned the moniker "Torchman Tucker" after firebombing a village which gave him much personal conflict. He says in a letter to his mother, "I wonder what God thinks of me." Just before his first bombing mission, he wrote of his apprehension of being able to do the right thing for his crewmates and country.

His letters also tell a story about America. His crew was all boys by today's standard from all over the country. Busy with life farming, banking, and all the other normal things were suddenly immersed in the business of war. The farmer became their pilot, the banker became the bombardier, and the recent high school graduate became a waist gunner and so the story goes. In the end, they all did what was expected of them and they returned to America quietly trying to fit in society. But their lives had been changed forever.

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L'autore

Me any my parrot, Hannabal, just hanging out at my place. When this picture was taken, he had been with me for thirty seven years. So grab yourself a cup of coffee and sit back and enjoy one of the strangest true stories of an American family you?ll ever read.

Product Description

Book by Tucker Terrence

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Editore
Iuniverse Inc
Data di pubblicazione
2007
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0595710158
ISBN 13 
9780595710157
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
206
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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