Gooney Bird Driver: The stories of WW2 C-47 pilot Joe D. Maguire and the combat missions that led to his honors and awards decades later BISAC-HUM000000 com Review

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Gooney Bird Driver: The stories of WW2 C-47 pilot Joe D. Maguire and the combat missions that led to his honors and awards decades later BISAC-HUM000000 com Review"Gooney Bird Driver" is a collection of war stories from C 47 pilot Joe D. Maguire, one of the "forgotten pilots" of the 27th Air Transport Group which carried just about everything across war torn Europe in World War 2, from wounded troops to cans of black and white paint (for adding invasion stripes to aircraft) to the Glenn Miller Band. Joe completed 35 combat missions, racking up hundreds of hours, often under intense enemy fire, but due to a