Flying against Fate by S. P. Mackenzie

Author:S. P. Mackenzie
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780700624706
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2017-07-13T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 2: ASKING FOR MIRACLES

1. For “Command Pilot,” see e.g. Willis W. Marshall Jr. memoir, 35, 2010.0229.0001, NMMEAF; Robert Morgan with Ron Powers, The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a WWII Bomber Pilot (New York: Dutton, 1991), 145. For “Man Upstairs,” see e.g. Dean M. Bloyd, Flak at 12 O’Clock: A Teenage Kansas Farm Boy’s Experiences That Led to His Becoming a B-17 Co-Pilot in the 8th Air Force during the Final Months of World War II (San Jose, CA: Writers Club, 2001), 87; William C. Crawford in Hell’s Angels Newsletter, vol. 1, Silver Anniversary Collection, 1976–2001, ed. Eddie Deerfield (Palm Harbor, FL: 303rd Bomb Group [H] Association, 2002), 541; Jim Everhart interview TS, 19, CAPS, accessed August 22, 2015, combataircrew.org. Doubtless influenced by the bestselling memoir of CBI theater fighter pilot Robert L. Scott Jr., God Is My Co-Pilot (New York: Scribner’s, 1943), single-seat fliers might also refer to the Almighty as “copilot.” See e.g. Norman W. Achen in Michael Snape, God and Uncle Sam: Religion and America’s Armed Forces in World War II (Woodfield, UK: Boydell, 2015), 323.

2. See Donald F. Crosby, Battlefield Chaplains: Catholic Priests in World War II (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994), 229. No FAA memoirs mention ready-room prayers. On public-address system prayers, see Clifford M. Drury, The History of the Chaplain Corps, United States Navy, vol. 2, 1939–1949 (Washington, DC, 1949), 191, 198–199; Gordon Taylor, The Sea Chaplains: A History of the Chaplains of the Royal Navy (Oxford: Oxford Illustrated, 1978), 401–402.

3. Snape, God and Uncle Sam, 993–994; see e.g. Kenneth T. Brown, Marauder Man: World War II in the Crucial but Little-Known B-26 Marauder (Pacifica, CA: Pacifica, 2001), 125; Donald E. Casey, To Fight for My Country, Sir! Memoirs of a 19 Year Old B-17 Navigator Shot Down in Nazi Germany and Imprisoned in the WWII “Great Escape” Camp (Chicago: CreateSpace, 2009), 70; Charles Hudson, Missions with Charlie, 1, 2, 8, 91st Bomb Group, accessed October 23, 2014, 91st bombgroup.com; L. W. “Mac” McFarland, Raid on Berlin, 9, 447th Bomb Group, accessed October 23, 2014, 447bg.com; John McGlauchlin interview, EAA, accessed October 11, 2014, eaavideo.org; Eddie S. Picardo, Tales of a Tail Gunner: A Memoir of Seattle and World War II (Seattle: Hara, 1996), 155; Moritz Thomsen, My Two Wars (South Royalton, VT: Steerforth, 1996), 246; Frederick D. Worthen, Against All Odds: Shot Down over Occupied Territory in World War II (Santa Barbara, CA: Narrative, 2001), 46; Stuart J. Wright, An Emotional Gauntlet: From Life in Peacetime America to the War in European Skies (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004), 255.

4. Jeffrey Ethell and Alfred Price, Target Berlin: Mission 250; 6 March 1944 (London: Brassey’s, 1981), 34; see e.g. Julius Altvater, Off We Go . . . Down in Flame (Victoria, BC: Trafford, 2002), 102; James Good Brown, The Mighty Men of the 381st: Heroes All, 2nd ed. (Salt Lake City: Publishers Press, 1986), 40; Dan Culler, Black Hole of Wauwilermoos (Tucson, AZ: Ghost River Images, 1995), 124; Donald R.

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