Heroes All

Airmen of Different Nationalities Tell Their Stories of Service in the Second World War

Steve Bond

• Publisher: Grub Street Publishing
• Year: 2010
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781908117861
• Subtopic: Military Biographies
• Index: History

This WWII history shares the personal stories of frontline airmen from all sides of the conflict gathered through original interviews.
Aviation historian Steve Bond has spent years interviewing veterans of World War II. He recorded the stories of former airmen and crewmembers who shared the same pieces of sky at the same time. The project brought together British and German, German and Russian, British and Italian, American and German—sometimes literally.
In Heroes All, Bond presents the stories of these veterans—some of whom are household names—with annotations and overviews providing historical context. This is not a book about the rights and wrongs of war, nor the strategies of the military commanders. It is about the experiences and feelings of those on the front line.
This volume includes stories and recollections from veterans of the Air Transport Auxiliary, British Army, Fleet Air Arm, Italian air force, Luftwaffe, Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force and Navy, Soviet air force, US Army, US Army Air Force, US Navy, and other groupings.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Intro & Acknowledge
• Chapter One Enlistment
• Chapter Two Training Days
• Chapter Three Defence – the Fighters
• Chapter Four Offence – Bomber Boys
• Chapter Five The Lonely Sea
• Chapter Six The Eastern Front
• Chapter Seven Mediterranean & Far East Theatres
• Chapter Eight Night Fighters!
• Chapter Nine Transports
• Chapter Ten They Also Served
• Chapter Eleven D-Day to VJ-Day
• References
• Abbreviations
• Select Bibliography