General Leemy's Circus: A Navigator's Story of the Twentieth Air Force in World War II
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    [year] => 2015
    [artist] => Earl A. Snyder
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    [title] => General Leemy's Circus: A Navigator's Story of the Twentieth Air Force in World War II
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    [synopsis] => This is the dramatic, uninhibited account of the human side of the air war in the Pacific and of the men who flew the Superforts, the B-29s of General Curtis LeMay's XXI Bomber Command, straight to the heart of Japan. Earl Snyder was a navigator on the B-29 Umbriago-Dat's My Boy, and took part in the first B-29 raid on Tokyo. But, he recalls nervously, his crew didn't drop their bombs on the Japanese capital, because at 29,000 feet the air was so cold that the bomb-release mechanism had frozen. 'Umbriago' made it back to the base at Saipan with the fuel gauges registering 'less than empty.' This is not a biography of General LeMay, or 'General Leemy,' as the Japs called him; it's the story of the airmen who carried out his orders, flew the missions, and lived or died without asking 'too many questions.' General Leemy's Circus is a tribute to those men and, at the same time, an exciting record of their everyday lives. Writing with stark realism, Snyder hands the reader a share of the dangers and thrills, the devil-may-care, sometimes hilarious, adventures of men without women, and of the sordidness and the glory of air war.
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