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by: Eugene J. Ulrich See Larger Image Our Price: $14.99 Prices subject to change. Used Price: $12.08 Third Party New Price: $9.24 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 920 EAN: 9781425903503 ISBN: 1425903509 Label: AuthorHouse Manufacturer: AuthorHouse Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 176 Publication Date: October 20, 2006 Publisher: AuthorHouse Sales Rank: 1804299 Studio: AuthorHouse Editorial Review: Product Description: A no-holds-barred account of Army Air Corps service in WWII and the year immediately afterwards. There are many detailed recollections of Army and civilian wartime people, and the places and situations involving them, that portray life in this crucial period. The emphasis generally is on how those dealing with all the terrible trials of war attempted to cope with it all. Army regulations; airplane, V-1 or V-2 bombings; German jet fighters (and an underground factory that produced them); severe food shortages in Europe; the Nuremberg court trials of Nazis; Hitler's 'redoubt' ('secret' mountain-top retreat); postwar occupation of German; Russian postwar occupation of other countries; and many other major or minor events are examined. The book opens with the author's enlistment as a cadet in Air Corps officer-training programs, with tales of success or near-success in the ways cadets tried to survive by 'bucking the system'. Further schooling (at Yale, Harvard, and M.I.T.) led to his servicing as a radar officer in a combat unit in France, a year in the forces occupying Germany, and return to the U.S. in 1946. There are many surprising and often amusing accounts of daily life, including a strange trip into Russian-occupied Czechoslovakia, where some of the skills learned as a 'system -bucking' cadet proved just as effective in that rather risky environment. There is a final note of anguish over all the 'fear, suffering, misery, horror, terror, torture, unbelievable pain and death . . . of soldiers and civilians . . . in WWII', followed by the hope that the 'mentality that says, 'Make my day by getting in front of my gun' is something that we have enough brains and understanding to avoid.' Browse for similar items by category: Biographies & Memoirs - Subjects - Books - General Biographies & Memoirs - Subjects - Books - General AAS World War II - Military - History - Subjects - Books - Personal Narratives Paperback Trade