Название: Sketches of a Black Cat - Full Color Collector's Edition: Story of a night flying WWII pilot and artist
Автор: Ron Miner
Издательство: Riverdale Press
ISBN: 1535055286
Год: 2017
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 281
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 21,4 МБ
Язык: Английский
Howard Miner never expected to contract the first documented case of the mumps in Guadalcanal history.
As a Navy Black Cat, he took his share of chances during the ten-hour, night long flights in darkened PBYs painted entirely black, searching the seas for enemy ships and downed fliers ~ the original stealth aircrafts. But wartime was unpredictable, and whether landing on an exotic tropical isle where the women he saw from the air turned out to be topless, or dropping wing tanks containing a strange new substance called Napalm, this was clearly a very different world than he had known as a college student in Indiana.
His is a tale of seven buddies, all pilots who flew at night, slept and got into mischief by day, then repeated. Their PBY Catalina odyssey stretched from the Solomon Islands to the northern tip of the Philippines and included a full range of missions, from search, attack, and bombing runs, to daring sea rescues.