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Crew One

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Crew One

A World War II Memoir of VPB-108
 
by Dennis Scranton
 
A Merriam Press Original Publication
Military Monograph MM67
  • Third Edition (September 2008)
  • 250 – 6 x 9 inch pages
  • Paperback (ISBN 1-57638-228-1) — #MM67 — $19.95
  • PDF file sent by mail on a DVD data disk — #MM67-PDF — $4.99
  • 33 B&W photos
  • 3 color photos
  • 1 map 
Memoir by a radar operator/gunner aboard a PB4Y-2 Privateer of VPB-108 in the Pacific, stationed at Hawaii, Kwajalein, Truk, Tinian, Peleliu, and Iwo Jima, flying missions as far as the Japanese home islands. 
 
Contents
  • Introduction
  • Aircrewman’s Creed
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Dedication
  • Pearl Harbor
  • Back in School Again
  • Another School
  • Fun for a Change
  • Flying at Last
  • PB4Y-1s
  • VPB-108
  • Acceptance
  • The “Privateer”
  • Crow’s Landing
  • Training
  • TransPac
  • Party Time
  • Kaneohe
  • Honolulu and the Bird Farm
  • Thieves?
  • Peleliu
  • Tinian
  • Getting to Work
  • Tinian Routine
  • Photo Business
  • In Retrospect
  • Other Crews
  • Lost Crew
  • Flying with Big John
  • Pappy
  • Tenaga Shima
  • Press Release
  • Crew Shot Down
  • Radar
  • Moving Up
  • Russia
  • Marcus Island
  • Marcus Aftermath
  • War is Over
  • Medal Time
  • Hitchhikers
  • Shipboard Life
  • Epilogue
Review by Dick Helling (via email): This is another long overdue book on an aircraft people didn't even know existed. A very good read.

Review by Al Jeanguenat (email to the author; Al was a member of the author's unit): The books arrived today. I'm real pleased, happy and nostalgic with your inking of them! I also note the size change from the original and like that, too. Fits better in a standard (if there is such a thing) bookcase. Should have ordered more cause already I can think of several other people I'd like to have a copy.


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