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Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
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Of all the celebrities who served their country during World War II - and they were legion - Jimmy Stewart was unique. On December 7, 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 Philadelphia 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 20 combat missions, including one to Berlin.
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- Mrs L A WATERFIELD-PARNELL
- 25-01-23
Interesting listen
If you like war, actors aeroplane real life drama and films you'll enjoy this book. He was quite a character
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- John Warner
- 10-11-18
Should be made into a film
Wonderful biography, especially if you know the area around Norfolk, that James Stewart was stationed. wish I had read this earlier.
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- joel
- 26-09-22
wonderfuly informative, entertaining and inspiring
wonderfuly informative, entertaining and inspiring insight into the great man and those who flew with him.
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