I came through swell
By: by Barbara G. Sommerville
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2013
Place of publication: North Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781482542400
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; American Aerial operations; American Personal narratives; Bomber pilots; Biography; United States. Army Air Forces; United States
Description: Chauncey "Speed" Nelson always knew he wanted to be a pilot.  Growing up on a farm, he spent his days dreaming of his plans to join the Royal Canadian Air Force, or to just buy a plane of his own if that didn't work out.  But when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, Speed found his purpose in life - a bomber pilot for the U.S. Air Corps, flying for his country.  Through his own journals, interviews with his contemporaries, and his daughter's journals, join Speed for the fear - and adventure - of a lifetime, from his first training days to twenty-eight of his forty terrifying and thrilling missions flown out of Italy.  -- Book cover.
Notes: Includes bibliography references (pages 139-140)