Robert J. Evans, Great Amen. Self-published, printed by Bureau Mailing Service (Brooklyn), 1946. 11"x8.5", 49pp. Offset printed. Bound in cloth-backed paper wrappers, which have chips here and there. Good condition. Approximately 35,000 words. $400
- NO copies located in WorldCat/OCLC.
- The table of contents tell part of the story of Staff Sergeant Robert J. Evans, who wrote of his adventures as a gunner on what I think must have been a B-24 (as there are mentions of belly gunners, and also what seems to be the names of the crew of nine airmen...also a close look at the rudimentary drawing of the aircraft on the cover gives it a nose looking very much like a Liberator). Training in Texas with the USAAF and the trip abroad take the first 10pp, the combat experience beginning on p. 11, in Italy. There are almost no dates mentioned, oddly enough, and no mention of bomber group; though I suspect the action takes place in 1944, as there is a chapter dedicated t a bombing of the Moosbierbaum oil refinery in Austria--a target hit numerous times from June 1944 into March 1945. This took place in 1944 as there is a mention of Christmas 1944 that comes later on in the story. In any event that was the only bombing action I could find, though it was lengthy; there's plenty of daily life/color in these pages, though, which makes it an interesting read.
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