Look, Mom-I Can Fly! Memoirs of a World War II P-38 Fighter

Look, Mom-I Can Fly! Memoirs of a World War II P-38 Fighter Pilot

In the mid-1920s the sound of airplane motors would cause the entire inhabitants of author Robert â€œSmokyâ€ Vrilakasâ€™ small Northern California village to dash outside to look up at the sky. Overhead would be a Ford Trimotor passenger plane droning off toward some unknown destinationâ€”a sight almost as awesome then as watching a manned satellite pass over in space today. The author, then a young boy, thought those who flew airplanes had to be super humansâ€”far beyond anything he could ever even dream of doing.

Later, in the midst of the Great Depression, Smoky Vrilakasâ€™ life took a sudden, sweeping turn. Six months prior to the December Pearl Harbor attack and at only 22 years old, Smoky was drafted into the army in preparation for an expected major war.

Look, Momâ€”I Can Fly! takes you through the authorâ€™s Army infantry training and his Army Air Corp flight training. You will share Smokyâ€™s experience in learning to fly the Armyâ€™s top fighter airplane of the time: the P-38 â€œLightning.â€ In mid-1943 you will travel with him and 65 other P-38 volunteer classmates to North Africa and Italy. There, as a member of the famed â€œHat in the Ringâ€ squadron, you will accompany him on 51 combat missions against the German Luftwaffe and Italian Air Force in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations. All of the combat missions carried considerable risk. Some came very close to being Smokyâ€™s last.

Meet some of Smokyâ€™s fellow P-38 pilots and learn about the everyday life of a fighter pilot of that era. This story confirms that determination and the will to meet a goal are the primary ingredients for success in any endeavor.

Country	USA
Author	Robert "Smoky" Vrilakas
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9781935354901
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Amethyst Moon Publishing
Manufacturer	Amethyst Moon Publishing
NumberOfPages	176
PublicationDate	2012-01-30
Publisher	Amethyst Moon Publishing
ReleaseDate	2012-01-30
Studio	Amethyst Moon Publishing

Look, Mom-I Can Fly! Memoirs of a World War II P-38 Fighter Pilot

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