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    Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot
    Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot
    Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot
    Audiobook5 hours

    Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot

    Written by Starr Smith and Walter Cronkite

    Narrated by Adam Grupper

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    About this audiobook

    Of all the celebrities who served their country during World War II-and they were legion-Jimmy Stewart was unique. On December 7th, when the attack on Pearl Harbor woke so many others to the reality of war, Stewart was already in uniform-as a private on guard duty south of San Francisco at the Army Air Corps Moffet Field. Seeing war on the horizon, Jimmy Stewart, at the height of his fame after Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and his Oscar-winning turn in The Phadelphia Story in 1940, had enlisted several months earlier.

    Jimmy Stewart, Bomber Pilot chronicles his long journey to become a bomber pilot in combat. Author Starr Smith, the intelligence officer assigned to the movie star, recounts how Stewart's first battles were with the Air Corps high command, who insisted on keeping the naturally talented pilot out of harm's way as an instructor pilot for B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators. By 1944, however, Stewart managed to get assigned to a Liberator squadron that was deploying to England to join the mighty Eighth Air Force. Once in the thick of it, he rose to command his own squadron and flew twenty combat missions, including one to Berlin.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateAug 8, 2017
    ISBN9781541477568
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    • 5/5
      Great book. Loved him as an actor and respect him as a Airmen.
    • 3/5
      What would it be like to excel in two fields? How often does a man come along who excels in two fields, yet remains a gentleman?Smith's hagiography and occasional awkward phrasing is worth sticking with, as the reader ends up with the facts concerning Stewart's achievements as Liberator pilot and officer. Intelligence, diligence, and moral clarity made the man what he was. His fellow warriors recognized it when they worked with him, just as millions recognized it on the silver screen.The end matter in this volume is very interesting. It includes General Andy Low's and Abe Wilen's accounts of POW experiences, an excerpt from Churchill's "Post-War Comments on the Allied Victory in Europe," and Smith's essay on the TAC school.It includes as well an excerpt from Gurney's "The War in the Air," consisting of quoted remarks by Goering. These fascinate, as Goering reads like he and his buddies were off their meds, matter-of-factly reeling off the state, at various moments, of their plans for world domination. The scary thing about that is that so much of that planning they enacted, and other of it could have been enacted also. Here's Goering: "The allies owe the success of the invasion to the air forces. They prepared the invasion; they made it possible; they carried it through. Without the US Air Force the war would still be going on elsewhere, but certainly not on German soil."
    • 4/5
      Well done book that focuses on Stewart's military service. This is a book assembled by a journalist and focuses on his love for aviation--mostly about his WWII service. Summarizes the military life of a quiet patriot. The book contains a few, quite a few, quote from others that occupy multiple pages as well as quotes from Stewart's old friends and flying buddies. Pretty well written and I enjoyed it.
    • 4/5
      Here is a man that not only did well as an actor but he was also a good man. A characteristic sadly lacking among many have to deal with heavy doses of fame. And he didn't brag about his service either. Good book and my hats off to the man it is about.
    • 4/5
      Well done book that focuses on Stewart's military service. There is a good deal of information about planes which was not of interest but the book still provided the fan of Stewart the actor with new information. Stewart served admirably and seemed to be an officer who was respected but well-liked by his men.
    • 4/5
      I always thought Stewart was the epitome of "what you see is what you get". A genuine man who obviously was whom we all saw on the silver screen as such. A very good read and very informative, too.