United States Military Aviation - General & Miscellaneous, Aerial Operations - World War II, Military Pilots & Bombardiers - Biography, Switzerland - History, Historical Biography - United States - 20th Century, World War II - War Narratives, 20th Century
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Synopsis
"Charles C. McBride served in the Army Air Forces of World War II as a bombardier. Unable to reach the English coast due to lack of fuel, he and his crew bailed out of their B-24 bomber over France on 1 April 1944... Only he and two others managed to evade capture and lived five months with French Resistance until rescued by Allied armies. Faulty navigation had caused the entire force of bombers to remain over Germany too long, which resulted in two bomber groups straying over Switzerland and bombing the town of Schaffhausen in error. Several years ago McBride's curiosity about this faulty and tragic mission caused him to begin a detailed search...to reconstruct the exact sequence of events of the flight." The result: Mission Failure and Survival, published in 1999 by Sunflower University PressBook Details
Published
July 1, 1989
Publisher
Sunflower Univ Pr
Pages
192
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780897451253