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1 online resource |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 26, 2015). |
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Dedication; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE-GETTING TO THE WAR; 1 The War Begins; 2 Pilot Training; 3 The Long Journey to the Pacific; PART TWO-WAR IN THE PACIFIC; 4 Into the Fight; 5 R & R in Australia; 6 Fighting Westward; 7 Wakde; 8 With the Black rams; 9 Leyte; 10 Into December; 11 Tanauan; 12 San Marcelino; PART THREE-PACIFIC AFTERMATH; 13 Getting Home; 14 Home from the War; 15 Flying Again; epilogue; Appendix 1: USAAF Pilot's Issue Flying Gear; Appendix 2: Pidgin English Phrasesused in SWPA; Appendix 3: Credit for Destruction of EnemyAircraft, 25 October 1943. |
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Appendix 4: 348th Fighter Group Air CombatIntelligence Report, 2 February 1944Appendix 5: 341st Fighter Squadron StatisticalData for May 1944; Appendix 6: Notes from Charles LindberghLecture on P-47 Operations; Appendix 7: 460th Fighter Squadron Monthly"A" to "L" Report for November 1944; Appendix 8: Unit Narrative Combat Report,10 December 1944; Appendix 9: Press Release by Fifth Air Forceto All Correspondents, circa May 1945; Appendix 10: Awards and Decorations ofJames C. Curran; Appendix 11: A Brief History of the460th Fighter Squadron. |
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Appendix 12: 460th Fighter SquadronCombat Losses in World War IIGlossary; Bibliography. |
| Summary |
There were no mission limits for a pilot in the Pacific during World War II; unlike in Europe, you flew until it was time to go home. So it was for James ""Jug"" Curran, all the way from New Guinea to the Philippines with the 348th Fighter Group, the first P-47 Thunderbolt outfit in the Pacific. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Curran volunteered to try flying in the blue yonder, and trained as an Army fighter pilot. He got his wish to fly the P-47 in the Pacific, going into combat in August 1943, in New Guinea, and later helping start the ""Black Rams"" fighter squadron. The heavy U.S. Thund. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-334). |
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United States. Air Force -- Biography.
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United States. Air Force. (OCoLC)fst00538280
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Fighter pilots -- United States -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
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Fighter pilots. (OCoLC)fst00923988
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| Added Author |
Popravak, Terrence G., author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Curran, Jim. Check Six! : A Thunderbolt Pilot's War Across the Pacific. Havertown : Casemate, ©2015 9781612002996 |
| ISBN |
9781612003009 (electronic bk.) |
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1612003001 (electronic bk.) |
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