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With the Possum and the Eagle: The Memoir of a Navigator's War over Germany and Japan

by Ralph Nutter
University of North Texas Press, 2005
Paper: 978-1-57441-198-0 | eISBN: 978-1-57441-463-9
Library of Congress Classification D790.2.N88 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.544973092

TOC

  • Contents 
    • Acknowledgments
    • Preface to the First Edition
    • Preface to the Paperback Edition
    • Part I: 
    • The Air War against Germany
      • 1. 
      • A Second Lieutenant Meets Colonel LeMay
      • 2. 
      • Across the North Atlantic
      • 3. 
      • Training for Combat
      • 4. 
      • Group Navigator for Colonel LeMay
      • 5. 
      • The Possum Becomes Our Commanding General
      • 6. 
      • Casablanca—The Air Force Rejects Area Bombing
      • 7. 
      • Our First Mission over Germany
      • 8. 
      • Prelude to a Bloody Summer
      • 9. 
      • The Politics of High Command
      • 10. 
      • Bloody Summer
      • 11. 
      • Munich by Night, Schweinfurt by Day
      • 12. 
      • Hansell and LeMay in Washington
      • 13. 
      • Reflections at Sea
    • Part II: 
    • The Air War against Japan
      • 14. 
      • General Arnold's $3 Billion Gamble
      • 15. 
      • Hansell and LeMay Lead the B-29s
      • 16. 
      • The Battle of Culver City
      • 17. 
      • A Different War, a Different Enemy
      • 18. 
      • The Divine Winds of Heaven
      • 19. 
      • The Beginning of the End for Hansell
      • 20. 
      • The Eagle Stretches His Wings
      • 21. 
      • LeMay Firebombs Japan
      • 22. 
      • The Aerial Mining of Japan
      • 23. 
      • Tinian and Muroc
      • 24. 
      • LeMay's Role in the Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
      • 25. 
      • A Postmortem
    • Appendices
    • Glossary of Aviation Terms
    • Note on Sources
    • Bibliography
    • Index
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