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File Size: 2399 KB
Print Length: 194 pages
Publisher: Eyrie Books (December 4, 2016)
Publication Date: December 4, 2016
Language: English
ASIN: B01MTXD3MQ
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I've seen this guy's name pop up in several writings and or documentaries about WWII. Andy Rooney mentioned him in his book "My War" about Rooney's experiences as a war correspondent with the 8th Air Force. I just watched the History Channel documentary called WWII in Color for a second time and like the first time, was particularly drawn to his story. I had remembered that Stiles became a fighter pilot after completing his missions on a bomber crew and was killed in action. I hadn't remembered that he wrote a book though, so when I saw that I had to find it. Thankfully it was available for my Kindle. So the whole time I'm reading it, there's this awful truth that as the reader I posses knowledge about what will happen to him that he doesn't have at that time in his life. Because this book ends while he's still a member of a bomber crew. Another thing that's so poignant about the experience of reading this story is that Bert Stiles is just a kid. Being a 60 year old man I just kept thinking that, though he'd be 90 or so now had he lived, he didn't live and so is forever just a kid tragically lost in that war like so , many others. His story just stops in time in 1944 or 45. And he's so funny and so intelligent and sensitive it makes this book burn into your mind in a most personal way. I'm better for having read it, I know that.
A haunting memoir: amusing, ineffably sad, and brutally honest about the author's emotions.I consider this book to be the best memoir of the American air campaign in Europe during World War Two. There are other fine memoirs but this is about the gut feelings of a young B-17 pilot and were I only going to read one memoir, I would read this one.The reason? The author, First Lieutenant Bert Stiles, flew 35 bombing missions over Germany and German occupied Europe during the Spring and early Summer of 1944. After finishing his tour, he stayed in England and spent a month writing this extraordinary memoir.Everything Stiles wrote about had just happened to him in the previous six months. His memories of fear, exhaustion, of boredom, German fighters and terror, of the death of friends and the subsequent sadness beyond words, of the drone of the engines on a B-17 and of how good a candy bar tasted after they were out of enemy territory; all of these memories were painfully fresh when he set them down.And their effects on him were also fresh. He wrote about the time he came back from a mission during which he had seen at least a dozen B-17s from his Wing go down.“...all those guys...all those good guys...shot to hell...or captured...then I came apart and cried like a little kid...â€This memoir has many virtues one of the most striking being that Stiles was a fine writer, a keen observer of human nature, and an extraordinary man with such a broad view of life that some of his observations seem out of place in not only one so young but in such a time as 1944.Stiles was actually a pacifist but like many came to the conclusion that the Nazis threatened the entire concept of Western Civilization. This is a haunting memoir: amusing, ineffably sad, and brutally honest about the author's emotions. At one point he was taking off active operations because he had become "flak happy." That was the expression used in the day by the US Army Air Force for someone cracking-up from the stress.From Serenade to the Big Bird:"There are all kinds of people: senators and whores and barristers and bankers and dishwashers. There are Chinamen and Cockney’s and Gypsies and Negroes. There are Lesbians and cornhuskers and longshoremen. There are poets and lieutenants and shortstops and prime ministers. There are Yanks and Japs and poor whites...there are Germans and Melanesians and beggars and Holy Rollers...there are people.And some day we are going to catch on, that no matter where people are born, or how their eyes slant, or what their blood type, they are just people...They are not masses. They will not go on being slaves. They are just people, partly good, partly bad, mostly balancing out. And until we call them people, and know they are people, all of them, we are going to have a sick world on our hands."I consider this book to be the best memoir of the American air campaign in Europe during World War Two. There are other fine memoirs but this is about the gut feelings of a young B-17 pilot and were I only going to read one memoir, I would read this one.The reason? The author, First Lieutenant Bert Stiles, flew 35 bombing missions over Germany and German occupied Europe during the Spring and early Summer of 1944. After finishing his tour, he stayed in England and spent a month writing this extraordinary memoir.The reason? The author, First Lieutenant Bert Stiles, flew 35 bombing missions over Germany and German occupied Europe during the Spring and early Summer of 1944. After finishing his tour, he stayed in England and spent a month writing this extraordinary memoir.Everything Stiles wrote about had just happened to him in the previous six months. His memories of fear, exhaustion, of boredom, German fighters and terror, of the death of friends and the subsequent sadness beyond words, of the drone of the engines on a B-17 and of how good a candy bar tasted after they were out of enemy territory; all of these memories were painfully fresh when he set them down.And their effects on him were also fresh. He wrote about the time he came back from a mission during which he had seen at least a dozen B-17s from his Wing go down.“...all those guys...all those good guys...shot to hell...or captured...then I came apart and cried like a little kid...â€This memoir has many virtues one of the most striking being that Stiles was a fine writer, a keen observer of human nature, and an extraordinary man with such a broad view of life that some of his observations seem out of place in not only one so young but in such a time as 1944.Stiles was actually a pacifist but like many came to the conclusion that the Nazis threatened the entire concept of Western Civilization. This is a haunting memoir: amusing, ineffably sad, and brutally honest about the author's emotions. At one point he was taking off active operations because he had become "flak happy." That was the expression used in the day by the US Army Air Force for someone cracking-up from the stress.From Serenade to the Big Bird:"There are all kinds of people: senators and whores and barristers and bankers and dishwashers. There are Chinamen and Cockney’s and Gypsies and Negroes. There are Lesbians and cornhuskers and longshoremen. There are poets and lieutenants and shortstops and prime ministers. There are Yanks and Japs and poor whites...there are Germans and Melanesians and beggars and Holy Rollers...there are people.And some day we are going to catch on, that no matter where people are born, or how their eyes slant, or what their blood type, they are just people...They are not masses. They will not go on being slaves. They are just people, partly good, partly bad, mostly balancing out. And until we call them people, and know they are people, all of them, we are going to have a sick world on our hands."Bert Stiles had written a number of published articles and short stories before he wrote this memoir. He wanted to be a writer when the war was over. But that wasn’t to be. After completing his 35 missions in bombers, he could have gone back to the US as a flight instructor. Instead he volunteered to fly fighters which he did until he was killed in action on 26 November 1944 in a dogfight over Germany.Stiles never saw his memoir published. He easily would have been one of the finest writers of his generation. Of the millions of small tragedies of World War Two and a lesson in how war kills men, and now women, indiscriminately.
If Catcher in the Rye had been published ten years earlier, this could have been its sequel: Holden Goes to War, but without the humorous elements.It is an interesting read, but more because it allows one to experience the angst of a young man as he serves in air combat rather than any historical content. Much of this book is reflection on personal relationships and experiences. It seems to have been written as a stream of consciousness moving from one thought to the next against the background of bombing misions over Europe in 1944.It should be noted that the author, having completed his tour with B 17 bombers, transferred to fighter aircraft as he had initially wished. He was killed in air combat late in the war. Had I not been familiar with that fact, I do not know that I would have read this book.Be aware that in this Kindle edition, there are text errors; there is an annoying frequency of dropped words at the end of lines and paragraphs.
Any eye witness accounts of how these air force personnel made it through their missions and lives are valuable, and a worthwhile reminder of their sacrifices.This book has the virtue of immediacy: Bert Stiles apparently wrote it in a months' time while on leave between postings. Tragically, he died in air combat not long after, and his mother discovered the draft in his personal effects.Its rich in authenticity: its not polished like a "finished" memoir; it's also fairly discursive. So it gives a candid, 3-dimensional look at how a young airmen lived the totality of his life as a warrior, lover, late adolescent and an (unintentional) tourist in the UK. Its format mixes up descriptions of air activity, life on base, interactions with people here at home, and the author's own musings on a variety of subjects that came to mind.All this also means it needs a bit of forbearance. Had Stiles actually survived WWII and intended to publish this book, it undoubtedly would have assumed a slightly different form, and with different emphases. And he might have thought twice about the literary value of including some of his on-the-spot musings, which occasionally slow down the book and detract from its appeal.Even so, I learned things about these B-17 missions that I had not picked up elsewhere. When I try to put myself in their shoes, fear grips my heart like steel. I can only dimly imagine what it was like to endure this, and these types of books make us face it on their own terms.
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