The Day We Bombed Switzerland: Flying With the Us Eighth Army Air Force in World War II

by Granholm, Jackson W.

• ISBN13: 9781840371352
• ISBN10: 1840371358
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Motorbooks Intl

Summary

This book tells of the author's military service spent flying aerial bombing runs over Europe with the 8th USAAF. Granholm describes operational events and horrors of massive daylight bombing raids over Germany and its occupied territories, from D-Day until the end of WWII. Declassified documents, plus the author's own recollections, make for compelling reading.

Author Biography

Jackson Granholm lives in Roseburg, Oregon, USA. He serves in various capacities in family businesses based there. He is semi-retired from a long career in aerospace, electronic physics and engineering. Granholm is a contributing editor of the Seattle, Washington, weekly, Western Viking, and the editor of Keystrokes, a quarterly magazine. He is the author of over a thousand magazine and newspaper articles, some about World War II events. His work appears in three anthologies. Twenty of his scripts have been produced as motion pictures

Table of Contents

Handwriting on the Wall	1	(6)
Off to Win the War	7	(7)
Navigation School	14	(5)
Crew Training	19	(12)
First Mission	31	(12)
The Latrine Coefficient	43	(8)
To Germany, at Last	51	(6)
A Bad Day in Grunberg	57	(8)
Moving Up in the World	65	(8)
An AZON Mission	73	(5)
Missions to Magdeburg	78	(8)
The Mystery of the Missing Bus	86	(8)
Hauling Gas	94	(6)
Oil Refineries and Canal Traffic	100	(5)
A Case of Murder	105	(6)
Christmas Eve 1944	111	(10)
The Buzz Bomb	121	(5)
Odd Events	126	(8)
Hole in the Clouds	134	(6)
High-Level Rhubarb	140	(5)
A Trip to Germany	145	(5)
The Accusation	150	(7)
Getting Ready for Trial	157	(5)
Counsel for the Defence	162	(6)
Germany Close Up	168	(4)
Swinging into Action	172	(9)
The Testimony Begins	181	(6)
Did the Briefing Tell All?	187	(6)
More Grist for the Mill	193	(4)
The Crew Members Testify	197	(7)
And So On into the Night	204	(8)
The Defence Responds	212	(9)
The Verdict	221	(7)
Final Days	228	(4)
Going Home	232	(6)
Index	238