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Grounded in Eire : The Story of Two RAF Fliers Interned in Ireland During World War II.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001Copyright date: ©2001Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (276 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773564466
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Grounded in EireDDC classification:
  • 940.54/72417/092
LOC classification:
  • D805.I74 K44 2001
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Author's Note -- 1 The Trip Over -- 2 Slainte, and Welcome to County Clare -- 3 The Officers' Bar -- 4 Life on the Curragh -- 5 Celebrating Pearl Harbor -- 6 That Let-Down Feeling -- 7 Waiting for Tipperary -- 8 A Handy Corkscrew -- 9 The New Plan -- 10 Bus A, Please! -- Epilogue.
Summary: Off-course after a failed mission over Frankfurt in 1941, Bobby Keefer, a former McGill football star, and his best friend Jack Calder found themselves forced to bail out of their twin-engine Wellington over Southern Ireland. Much to their surprise, rather than being returned to their squadron in England, they were interned for having violated Ireland's neutral airspace. In Grounded in Eire Ralph Keefer recreates his father's experiences in Ireland during the war.
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Intro -- Contents -- Author's Note -- 1 The Trip Over -- 2 Slainte, and Welcome to County Clare -- 3 The Officers' Bar -- 4 Life on the Curragh -- 5 Celebrating Pearl Harbor -- 6 That Let-Down Feeling -- 7 Waiting for Tipperary -- 8 A Handy Corkscrew -- 9 The New Plan -- 10 Bus A, Please! -- Epilogue.

Off-course after a failed mission over Frankfurt in 1941, Bobby Keefer, a former McGill football star, and his best friend Jack Calder found themselves forced to bail out of their twin-engine Wellington over Southern Ireland. Much to their surprise, rather than being returned to their squadron in England, they were interned for having violated Ireland's neutral airspace. In Grounded in Eire Ralph Keefer recreates his father's experiences in Ireland during the war.

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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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