| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 790 M67 2014 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
18010 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 9780692268995
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 790
- Item number - M67 2014
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Mosier, Robert R.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Flying with Biscuit Bomber Bob :
- Remainder of title - the untold story of WWII air transport in the Pacific /
- Statement of responsibility, etc - Robert R. Mosier with Beverly Mosier
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc - Newport Beach, California :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc - Dockside Sailing Press,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc - c2014.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xvi, 204 p. :
- Other physical details - illustrations ;
- Dimensions - 23 cm.
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| General Note |
- General note - Includes appendix, bibliography and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
- Formatted contents note - Map: Western U.S. Pilot Training Command Locations -- Origins -- Earning My Wings -- The Home Front -- Map: Aircraft Delivery, Troopship Route, U.S. - New Guinea -- On to New Guinea -- Map: New Guinea/Biak/Peleliu/Philippines -- Move to Biak -- Overloaded Take-off -- Life on Biak -- Troop Carrier Missions -- Glider Towing -- Peleliu Island -- Map: Philippines to Okinawa -- Move to the Philippines: -- Air Rescue at Santo Tomas -- R and R in Australia -- Life in San Jose : Supplying Guerrillas -- Luzon : Porac and Clark Field -- Map: Okinawa to Japan -- Okinawa : Japan Surrenders -- First Flight to Tokyo -- Hokkaido Rescue : We "Capture" an Airfield -- Tachikawa, Japan -- Home, Family, Career. Homeward Bound -- Life Resumed -- An Inventive Career -- Epilogue -- Appendix. How to fly a transport aircraft -- Return at your leisure
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc - "The story of the WWII 57th Troop Carrier Squadron in the Southwest Pacific as seen through the adventures of one of its youngest pilots, "Biscuit Bomber Bob."
An American flyboy, Bob was put in charge of a C-47, the military version of the DC-3, when only 20. He had to grow up fast, making decisions beyond his years, flying in remote New Guinea and progressively north to reach Tokyo after the Japanese surrendered.
Fly along with Biscuit Bomber Bob in the 37th Troop Carrier Wing with the motto "Vincit Qui primum Gerit" which means "He conquers who gets there first." A teenager one minute, an adult the next.
This largely unsung roll of the troop carriers, represents thousands of young American pilots and crew who far from home, ferried troops, ammunition, and nurses, from one island battlefield to the next, airlifting wounded or ill soldiers to hospitals in the rear, and dropping the vital supplies and food that sustained our people in remote locations. They became known fondly as the "Biscuit Bombers.""
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Mosier, Robert R.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - United States. Army Air Forces
- General subdivision - Biography
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - United States. Army Air Forces. Troop Carrier Squadron, 57th
- General subdivision - History
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Aerial operations, American
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Personal narratives, American
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Air pilots, Military
- Geographic subdivision - United States
- General subdivision - Biography
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