Pathfinder Pioneer by Raymond E Brim - 9781612003528

Pathfinder PioneerThe Memoir of a Lead Bomber Pilot in World War II\nAuthor(s): Raymond E Brim\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Casemate Publishers, United States\nImprint: Casemate Publishers\nISBN-13: 9781612003528, 978-1612003528\nSynopsis\nIn this engaging book we see how an 18-year-old miner shoveling ore from deep in the ground in Utah suddenly found himself, only two years later, 30,000 feet in the air over Nazi Germany, piloting a Flying Fortress in the first wave of Americas air counteroffensive in Europe. \n\nLike thousands of other young Americans, Ray Brim was plucked by the [url] Army to be a combat flyer, and was quickly pitted against the hardened veterans of the Luftwaffe. Brim turned out to have a natural knack for flying, however, and was assigned to the select squadron developing lead Pathfinder techniques, while experimenting with radar. He was among the first to test the teeth of the Luftwaffes defenses, and once those techniques had been honed, thousands of other b.