학술논문
THE LEGACY OF THE LONGEST DAY.
Document Type
Article
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Subject
*AIR power (Military science)
*FLIGHT training
*NORMANDY Invasion, 1944
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ISSN
0003-8113
Abstract
The article presents the life and death description of U.S Army Air Forces 2nd Lieutenant William J. McGowan. It mentions his training to Eagle Pass Army Airfield in southern Texas for training and later moved on to Harding Airfield in Baton Rouge for flight training; and discusses about his longest day, D-Day when he set out from Royal Air Force Thruxton in Hampshire in southern England on a mission to target the Lison train station and enemy convoys moving northeast toward Bayeux.