LEADER 03777nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910959765603321 005 20230617021006.0 010 $a9781283906579 010 $a1283906570 010 $a9780299185039 010 $a0299185036 035 $a(CKB)3240000000068411 035 $a(OCoLC)825768815 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642066 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000607647 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11336590 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000607647 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10584099 035 $a(PQKB)10348859 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3445278 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3445278 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642066 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421907 035 $a(Perlego)4385999 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000068411 100 $a20021108d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReturn from Berlin $ethe eye of a navigator /$fRobert Grilley 210 $aMadison, Wis. $cUniversity of Wisconsin Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (206 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780299185008 311 08$a0299185001 327 $aThe 401st Bomb Group (H) in England at war -- Paris in June: the first mission -- Hamburg -- Landscapes and Elizabeth -- Berlin -- Frevant -- Montbartier -- Leipzig I -- Munich I and II -- Leipzig II -- Marlene Dietrich -- Saint-Lo? -- Merseburg -- Lead team -- Nienburg and Kettering -- Peenemu?nde -- Berlin II -- Good-bye, Elizabeth -- Ludwigshafen -- Ludwigshafen again -- Groesbeek -- Forgotten missions -- Mu?nster -- Nu?rnberg -- After the last bomb run -- Back in the U.S.A. 330 8 $aDuring the summer of 1944, the now-legendary American Eighth Air Force was engaged in a ferocious air battle over Europe to bring the Allies victory over the German Third Reich. This is the story of one B-17 navigator and his crewmates, men who faced extraordinary danger with a maturity beyond their years. This vivid and detailed account of combat flying and its psychological toll also recalls the beginning of Robert Grilley's development as a painter of international renown, as he spends his off-duty time drawing the peaceful Northamptonshire landscape around Deenethorpe airbase. Wakened with flashlights on their faces in the predawn hours, he and his crew repeatedly face the Luftwaffe in battles five miles high, flying through flak "so thick you could get out and walk on it." Stretching their stamina to the limits, they succeed time after time in their missions to bomb munitions works, railyards, the Leu?na synthetic oil plant at Merseburg in eastern Germany, the V2 rocket research center at Peenemu?nde on the distant Baltic Coast, and even to strike Hitler's capital city, Berlin. But Grilley finds interludes of unexpected grace and restoration on his days off, making serious drawings from nature at the neighboring Yokehill Farm. There he slowly cultivates a friendship with a curious eight-year-old, the lively child Elizabeth, who becomes for the combat flyer a symbol of survival. 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$vPersonal narratives, American 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAerial operations, American 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xRegimental histories$zUnited States 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAerial operations, American. 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xRegimental histories 676 $a940.54/4973/092 676 $aB 700 $aGrilley$b Robert$f1920-$01811661 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910959765603321 996 $aReturn from Berlin$94363671 997 $aUNINA