
Tail-End Charley
Stories from an American Fighter Pilot in World War II
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Narrated by:
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Bob Souer
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By:
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James E. Brown
On his 19th birthday, James E. Brown tries to fake to his flight instructor that he has flown before. On his 21st birthday, Brown is on his way home after logging 85 missions in a P-47 fighter over Italy, France, and Germany.
Brown's stories surrounding his training and combat experiences in World War II reveal brushes with death, continuous peril and, ultimately, a coming of age for a young man whose freshman year in college becomes instead a heroic engagement with one of the fiercest enemies his country has ever encountered.
Ever dutiful to the mother who tells him to "write it down, Jamie", Brown notes his experiences in the journal she provides and adds detail later to deliver a firsthand account of life as a pilot in the final months of combat within the European Theater.
Serving as Tail-End Charley - the last man out - in most of the missions he flew, Brown's job was to record results for the interrogation officers afterward. But Brown offers much more insight in this memoir. Follow his triumphs and travails with colleagues who become lifelong compatriots during an indelible period in American history.
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The way it was
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Good performance, ok srory
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A genuine book
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Awesome memoir!
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great book.
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Enjoyed the story
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So entertaining - I was sad when it was over
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Authentic
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He doesn’t enter combat till November 1944, Italy
Typical story is going across enemy lines, zig-zag through heavy flak to drop bombs on a bridge or the like. Each story too much like the previous. This is of course more the story of a typical pilot on typical missions being a typical hero
Realistic but not top of the line
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