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B-24 Bomber Crew: A True Story of the Pacific War With Japan Paperback – November, 1997

by J. A. Nichols (Author)

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B-24 Bomber Crew: A True Story of the Pacific War With Japan [Nov 01, 1997] Nichols, J. A.

Paperback: 78 pages
Publisher: Vantage Pr; 1st edition (November 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0533122554
ISBN-13: 978-0533122554
Product Dimensions: 0.2 x 5.2 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
Average Customer Review: 1 customer review
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,149,163 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #11808 in Books > History > Asia > Japan
- #59740 in Books > History > Military > World War II
- #303602 in Books > History > Americas > United States

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Bare Bones Book

ByJohn P. Rooneyon July 20, 2006

Format: Paperback

"B-24 Bomber Crew" by J.A. Nichols. Subtitled: "A True Story Of The Pacific War With Japan". Vantage Press, New York, 1997.

This small book (only 78 pages) recounts the experiences of one man in the United Sates Army Air force in the Pacific theatre of World War II. After three pages describing the bombed out city of Nagasaki, Japan, the story of John A. Nichols is told in chronological order from his flight training in 1942 up to his discharge in November 1945. There are some 19 pages of photographs (between page 28 and page 47), so that there is a minimal amount of writing. There is the obligatory discussion of the Depression of the 1930s, and its impact on his family business, so that they had to move into a flat in Boston, Massachusetts. John Nichols volunteered from Massachusetts, entered the service at Fort Devens and went for flight training in the American South. Again, the Southerners were still fighting the Civil War. A few pages later, Flight Engineer J.A. Nichols begins to narrate his combat experience.

One of his more interesting combat flights involves a single B-24 Bomber making a raid deep into Japanese held territory in order to bomb oil tanks near Shanghai. I wish that the author had expanded more on the flight, the reasons that a single bomber raid would be safer than many bombers and the success of the raid. In fact, I wish he fleshed out the entire book with more details. During the account of the Shanghai raid, the author does state that a major difference between bombing in the Pacific and bombing in the European Theater of Operations was the great distances covered in the Pacific. He repeats this statement a few times. He also repeats that the crew gained "extra points" if their plane was holed by flak. His repetitions would have been eliminated by a good editor.

On page 26, he has a sentence fragment in the next to last paragraph. On page 27, he wanted to say, "...damaged, of course, by the Japanese" but he wrote "...damage of course". Since Vantage Press is a so-called "vanity publishing house", I think that Mr. Nichols could have received more editing help on his work. Examples above. And then, on page 56, he has a single paragraph, entitled, "Okinawa"; this paragraph is also a single chapter that is also single page ... leaving a lot of white space. All in all, the book is an excellent mission by mission record of single person's World War II experiences.

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