Of all the celebrities who served their country during World War II -and they were legion -Jimmy Stewart was unique.
Now journalist Starr Smith has raised the curtain on Stewart\'s gallant service as a Bomber Pilot and air combat commander in World War II." --Walter Cronkite, from the Foreword. "I have met a few movie stars, but of them all, I think that Jimmy Stewart was most like those modest heroes he portrayed.
Ryan, former Chief of Staff of the Air Force.
It fills a place in history about no mere actor but a courageous and selfless man, Brigadier General Jimmy Stewart, USAF." - General Michael E. . . . "This is a very well researched and written book.
Bravo " - Gay Talese.
It is needed and wanted.
I welcomed Starr\'s book. . . . "How wonderful it is that Starr Smith has finally directed a literary light on the personal history of Jimmy Stewart. 8th Air Force . "An excellent biography of a distinguished airman and fine human being." - Roger Freeman, author of The Mighty Eighth: A History of the U.
S. "My father would feel honored by this book." --Kelly Stewart Harcourt, daughter of Jimmy Stewart "We would have made Jimmy a group commanderequivalent to an army regiment] if the war had lasted another month." - General Jimmy Doolittle.
Once in the thick of it, he rose to command his own squadron and flew twenty combat missions, including one to Berlin.
By 1944, however, Stewart managed to get assigned to a Liberator squadron that was deploying to England to join the mighty Eighth Air Force.
Author Starr Smith, the intelligence officer assigned to the movie star, recounts how Stewart\'s first battles were with the Air Corps high command, who insisted on keeping the naturally talented Pilot out of harm\'s way as an instructor Pilot for B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators.
Jimmy Stewart, Bomber Pilot chronicles his long journey to become a Bomber Pilot in combat.
Smith Goes to Washington and his Oscar-winning turn in The Phadelphia Story in 1940 , had enlisted several months earlier.
Seeing war on the horizon, Jimmy Stewart, at the height of his fame after Mr.
On December 7th, when the attack on Pearl Harbor woke so many others to the reality of war, Stewart was already in uniform - as a private on guard duty south of San Francisco at the Army Air Corps Moffet Field.
Of all the celebrities who served their country during World War II -and they were legion -Jimmy Stewart was unique
