WWII B17 BOMBER PILOT MEMOIR BERT STILES KILLED IN ACTION 1944 HISTORY TRUE WAR

Description: Serenade to the Big BirdMemorial Editionby Bert StilesHowland Assoc., 1998. Memorial Edition. Very good hardcover, no dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text, 160 pages. A haunting memoir: amusing, ineffably sad, and brutally honest about the author's emotions.Many consider this book to be the best memoir of the American air campaign in Europe during World War Two. There are other fine memoirs but this is about the gut feelings of a young B-17 pilot and the author, First Lieutenant Bert Stiles, flew 35 bombing missions over Germany and German occupied Europe during the Spring and early Summer of 1944. After finishing his tour, he stayed in England and spent a month writing this extraordinary memoir.Everything Stiles wrote about had just happened to him in the previous six months. His memories of fear, exhaustion, of boredom, German fighters and terror, of the death of friends and the subsequent sadness beyond words, of the drone of the engines on a B-17 and of how good a candy bar tasted after they were out of enemy territory; all of these memories were painfully fresh when he set them down.And their effects on him were also fresh. He wrote about the time he came back from a mission during which he had seen at least a dozen B-17s from his Wing go down. He was killed in action 26 November 1944. Loc: E9StoreAdd to FavoritesFeedbackWWII B17 BOMBER PILOT MEMOIR BERT STILES KILLED IN ACTION 1944 HISTORY TRUE WAR Serenade to the Big BirdMemorial Editionby Bert StilesHowland Assoc., 1998. Memorial Edition. Very good hardcover, no dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text, 160 pages. A haunting memoir: amusing, ineffably sad, and brutally honest about the author's emotions.Many consider this book to be the best memoir of the American air campaign in Europe during World War Two. There are other fine memoirs but this is about the gut feelings of a young B-17 pilot and the author, First Lieutenant Bert Stiles, flew 35 bombing missions over Germany and German occupied Europe during the Spring and early Summer of 1944. After finishing his tour, he stayed in England and spent a month writing this extraordinary memoir.Everything Stiles wrote about had just happened to him in the previous six months. His memories of fear, exhaustion, of boredom, German fighters and terror, of the death of friends and the subsequent sadness beyond words, of the drone of the engines on a B-17 and of how good a candy bar tasted after they were out of enemy territory; all of these memories were painfully fresh when he set them down.And their effects on him were also fresh. He wrote about the time he came back from a mission during which he had seen at least a dozen B-17s from his Wing go down. He was killed in action 26 November 1944. Loc: E9

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