Mission Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe (Audible Audio Edition) Robert Matzen Peter Berkrot Leonard Maltin foreward Inc Blackstone Audio Books
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In March 1941 Jimmy Stewart, America's boy next door and recent Academy Award winner, left fame and fortune behind and joined the United States Army Air Corps to fulfill his family mission and serve his country. He rose from private to colonel and participated in 20 often-brutal World War II combat missions over Germany and France. In mere months the war took away his boyish looks as he faced near-death experiences and the loss of men under his command. The war finally won, he returned home with millions of other veterans to face an uncertain future, suffering what we now know as PTSD. Younger stars like Gregory Peck were now getting roles that might have been Stewart's, and he didn't know if he would ever work in Hollywood again. Then came It's a Wonderful Life.
For the next half century, Stewart refused to discuss his combat experiences and took the story of his service to the grave. Mission presents the first in-depth look at Stewart's life as a squadron commander in the skies over Germany, his return to Hollywood, and the changed man who embarked on production of America's most beloved holiday classic.
Author Robert Matzen sifted through thousands of Air Force combat reports and the Stewart personnel files; interviewed surviving aviators who flew with Stewart; visited the James Stewart Papers at Brigham Young University; flew in the cockpits of the B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator; and walked the earth of air bases in England used by Stewart in his combat missions of 1943-45. What emerges in Mission is the story of a Jimmy Stewart you never knew until now - a story more fantastic than any he brought to the screen.
Mission Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe (Audible Audio Edition) Robert Matzen Peter Berkrot Leonard Maltin foreward Inc Blackstone Audio Books
Jimmy Stewart was a major motion picture star, having been in many films during the years before World War II. But Jim had another passion besides acting: flying. By the time the war broke out, Jim was an accomplished pilot. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps nine months before the attack on Pearl Harbor and by 1943, he was a member of the Eighth Air Force. In this fine book, author Robert Matzen describes Jim's life in pictures as well as the pilot of a B-24 Liberator flying missions over Germany.Over the course of some sixteen-plus months in combat, Jim flew numerous missions over Germany, including trips to Brunswick and Berlin. He saw many of the boys he trained shot out of the sky. Others became prisoners of war. He faced the horrors of attack by German fighters and the nerve-racking flak put up by German anti-aircraft batteries.
During his time in Europe, Jim transformed from an actor into a combat-hardened veteran. He suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder from the terrible missions he flew and the loss of so many of his fellow fliers and crewmen. He came home from the war a changed man who refused to talk about his war experiences. But acting was still on his mind.
Jim returned to Hollywood and struggled to find work until he met a man named Frank Capra. Frank had an idea for a movie and wanted Jim to be the lead actor. The result was the filming of "It's A Wonderful Life", a film that has been a holiday classic for years and one that re-energized Jim's acting career. Successful roles followed for years after it's release.
"Mission" is a tremendous book about one of Hollywood's most recognizable actors. Many people know Jimmy Stewart the actor, but few know him as a combat pilot who flew missions over Nazi Germany, battling the best of the Luftwaffe. Author Robert Matzen does a fine job of describing Jim's acting and military lives, while drawing on the memories of actors and military comrades alike. Highly recommended.
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Mission Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe (Audible Audio Edition) Robert Matzen Peter Berkrot Leonard Maltin foreward Inc Blackstone Audio Books Reviews
Jimmy Stewart was known for saying little about his distinguished World War II service as a heavy bomber pilot and combat leader, but Robert Matzen fills in many of those blanks about the actor's competent and valorous performance and the impact it had on his post-war life and career. He chronicles how Stewart, often the oldest and most experienced pilot in his units, fought to get into combat and then be left alone by the news media of the day so he could do his job. Matzen tells what Stewart didn't tell about his combat missions through interviews with the veterans who served with and under him. The book shows how Stewart earned his two Distinguished Flying Crosses by leading very dangerous and important missions in his B-24 bomb group, in which was a squadron leader first and later its operations officer; Matzen supplies details of those missions, the actor's roles and the close calls Stewart and his crews faced. Matzen goes on to show how Stewart likely suffered from post traumatic stress syndrome and how the classic holiday film "It's a Wonderful Life" got both the actor and its maker, Frank Capra, back into their Hollywood careers. The book attributes much of James Stewart's silence about his war experiences to the effects of his apparent PTSD. "MIssion" goes on to show how Stewart's life as a Hollywood playboy was dramatically transformed into a man who wanted to marry one woman and raise a family and seriously pursue his acting career with a new, poignant sobriety. No previous accounts of Stewart's involvement in World War II are nearly as rich and wide-ranging in describing his heroic service and how it affected his acting career and personal life.
MISSION James Stewart And The Fight For Europe, by Robert Matzen. Jimmy Stewart was one of the finest natural actors to come out of Hollywood in the 1930s. He won an Academy Award in 1941 as Best Actor for The Philadelphia Story. What the author chronicles most in this fine book is Stewart’s sense of patriotism, the need to serve his country in the armed services and his love of flying. Jim’s grandfather served in the Civil War, his father in the Spanish American War and World War I. He and his close actor friend, Henry Fonda, roomed together in New York City and Hollywood in the 1930s while learning their craft. During those years, Jimmy Stewart became a legend making more than 30 movies and bedding most Hollywood actresses of note. He was a true ladies man. Hearing the winds of war approaching he tried desperately to join the army but is rejected because he is under weight—he is 6 – 4 and only 140 pounds. The most popular male actor in Hollywood is finally successful and is sworn in nine months before Pearl Harbor. A month after Pearl Harbor, 2/Lt James Stewart receives his Army Air Corps pilot wings. For the better part of the next two years, Lieutenant Stewart instructs young pilots on how to fly the B-17 bomber while desperately trying to get to Europe and fly combat. He eventually gets checked out in the B-24 Liberator and flies his first combat mission from England over Germany in December 1943. Stewart will fly 19 more, personally leading huge formations of 200 Liberators (2,000 airmen) until his final mission in March 1945. In those 16 months of combat, he will rise from junior captain to full colonel, command an Air Force Wing and earn two Distinguished Flying Crosses and several Air Medals. In 1946, Colonel James Stewart returns to the States and musters out of active service but remains in the Air Force Reserve where he will later become a brigadier general. He is depressed from 16 months of combat and the loss of so many of his young airmen. He also finds he is no longer on the Hollywood A-list. Frank Capra finally casts him in, It’s A Wonderful Life, that turns out to be a huge success. In 1949, Stewart marries Gloria McLean a socialite who has two sons from a previous marriage, one is later killed in Vietnam. Gloria bore him twin daughters in 1951. She dies in 1994, Jim, three years later at age 89.
Robert Matzen has written a wonderful tribute to a real gentleman, a true patriot and Hollywood legend, James Maitland Stewart. Mission… is a wonderful read, particularly if you
Jimmy Stewart was a major motion picture star, having been in many films during the years before World War II. But Jim had another passion besides acting flying. By the time the war broke out, Jim was an accomplished pilot. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps nine months before the attack on Pearl Harbor and by 1943, he was a member of the Eighth Air Force. In this fine book, author Robert Matzen describes Jim's life in pictures as well as the pilot of a B-24 Liberator flying missions over Germany.
Over the course of some sixteen-plus months in combat, Jim flew numerous missions over Germany, including trips to Brunswick and Berlin. He saw many of the boys he trained shot out of the sky. Others became prisoners of war. He faced the horrors of attack by German fighters and the nerve-racking flak put up by German anti-aircraft batteries.
During his time in Europe, Jim transformed from an actor into a combat-hardened veteran. He suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder from the terrible missions he flew and the loss of so many of his fellow fliers and crewmen. He came home from the war a changed man who refused to talk about his war experiences. But acting was still on his mind.
Jim returned to Hollywood and struggled to find work until he met a man named Frank Capra. Frank had an idea for a movie and wanted Jim to be the lead actor. The result was the filming of "It's A Wonderful Life", a film that has been a holiday classic for years and one that re-energized Jim's acting career. Successful roles followed for years after it's release.
"Mission" is a tremendous book about one of Hollywood's most recognizable actors. Many people know Jimmy Stewart the actor, but few know him as a combat pilot who flew missions over Nazi Germany, battling the best of the Luftwaffe. Author Robert Matzen does a fine job of describing Jim's acting and military lives, while drawing on the memories of actors and military comrades alike. Highly recommended.
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