Flying 'Gas Cans' High Over the Himalayas

Nonfiction, History, Military, World War II
Cover of the book Flying 'Gas Cans' High Over the Himalayas by Leon F Johnston, Leon F Johnston
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Author: Leon F Johnston ISBN: 9780998000046
Publisher: Leon F Johnston Publication: June 4, 2017
Imprint: Smashwords Edition Language: English
Author: Leon F Johnston
ISBN: 9780998000046
Publisher: Leon F Johnston
Publication: June 4, 2017
Imprint: Smashwords Edition
Language: English

Have you ever wondered what it would be like flying over the Himalayas in winter with the plane completely covered with ice at 17,000 feet, when an updraft suddenly threw the plane up to 24,000 feet and your engines failed just as the draft dumped the plane back down to 16,000 feet? Or, what was it like to be in your early 20’s, taken from home and dumped in a foreign country like India where culture and language were vastly different from your own? Staff Sergeant Johnston takes you on an incredible three-year journey to a foreign land where he was confronted with adapting to an entirely new way of life which was beset with many adventures and much danger. Where a man had to learn to ‘make-do’ the Army Air Force way. A whole generation needs to know what our ancestors endured during WW II so that they might be free and prosperous today. When these young men returned from the war, they had awakened skills and inventiveness in themselves that gave us the great inventions of the last half of the twentieth century.

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like flying over the Himalayas in winter with the plane completely covered with ice at 17,000 feet, when an updraft suddenly threw the plane up to 24,000 feet and your engines failed just as the draft dumped the plane back down to 16,000 feet? Or, what was it like to be in your early 20’s, taken from home and dumped in a foreign country like India where culture and language were vastly different from your own? Staff Sergeant Johnston takes you on an incredible three-year journey to a foreign land where he was confronted with adapting to an entirely new way of life which was beset with many adventures and much danger. Where a man had to learn to ‘make-do’ the Army Air Force way. A whole generation needs to know what our ancestors endured during WW II so that they might be free and prosperous today. When these young men returned from the war, they had awakened skills and inventiveness in themselves that gave us the great inventions of the last half of the twentieth century.

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