... doused the ball turret gunner in gasoline. For “what felt like hours and hours,” Meneley nursed the bomber to a P-47 airstrip in Belgium identified as an emergency landing field, all the while unable to use the aircraft’s intercom for ...

... The Age of Miracles" by Marianne Williamson (Hay House) (NF-H) 46. "The Alibi Man" by Tami Hoag (Bantam) (F-P) 47. "Duma Key" by Stephen King (Scribner) (F-H) 48. "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead Hardcover ...

... about life in the Air Force and the pilots that he came to know as friends. Fitton began his career as a pilot flying the P-47 on fighter strikes from Japan to Iwo Jima during World War II alongside friends Bill Fullilove and George Maxon. The group ...

... stories he heard, and one he will chronicle in the archives, involves a fighter pilot named Bob Izzard, who piloted a P-47 Thunderbolt and was forced to bail out in German-held territory over France. He eluded the Germans by hiding and was ...