Every Day a Nightmare : American Pursuit Pilots in the Defense of Java, 1941-1942.
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- computer
- online resource
- 9781603442466
- United States. -- Army -- History -- World War, 1939-1945
- United States. -- Army. -- Air Corps -- History
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Indonesia -- Java
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States
- Fighter pilots -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- 940.54/25982
- D767.7 -- .B376 2010eb
Intro -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS -- Never in Our History Has There Been a Time Like the Present" -- Plans for Reaching You Quickly with Pursuit Are Jeopardized -- We Are Virtually a Floating Ammunition Dump -- We Came 4,700 Miles and Are Pigeon- holed! -- The News from Wavell Is All Bad -- There Goes Our Ferry Route -- Second Lieutenants Are Expendable -- You Are Not Forgotten Men -- A Collection of the Worst Landings I Have Ever Seen -- I'm All Shot to Hell! -- These Guys Are Really Inexperienced -- Someone Is Crazy- This Is Murder -- I Deeply Regret Failure to Hold ABDA Area -- I Was Thoroughly Enjoying Myself -- Nothing Will Ever Happen to Me -- He Was Wholly Unrecognizable -- How Can We Operate against Such Odds? -- Every Day a Nightmare! -- Nothing Less than Desertion -- Thousands of Men Gone Completely Mad -- Senseless in All Senses -- Give Us Twenty-four Hours to Get Out of This God- damned Place -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- SOURCES -- INDEX.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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