My current choice reading book is Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. I am currently on page 104. In the past week Louis Zamperini has enlisted in the military and has started his training. He was assigned to a B-24 called the Liberator. They had to train on multiple different systems and be capable of using them. They also varied significantly in price, an example of this is "$1 handheld sight consisting of an aluminum plate with a peg and a dangling weight. For flat runs, he had the Norden bomb sight, an extremely sophisticated analog computer that, $8000, cost more than twice the price the average American home." This shows that they had some equipment that didn’t cost much but also some equipment that cost much more than most things cost, also this shows that items didn’t cost as much back then. This is still true for things that are currently in the aircraft that are being built today. Some of the equipment starts cheap but it all cost more than the old equipment, also it is more advanced and they don’t need as many different systems to be used to do the same thing. Also they have stuff that was extremely top secret, an example of this is “Norden bomb sight was so secret that they were stored in guarded vaults and moved under armed escort, and men were forbidden to photograph or write about them. If the plane was going down Louie was under order to fire his gun into the bomb sight to prevent it from falling into enemy hands, then see about saving himself.” This shows that they value the equipment so much and that it is so top secret and valuable that it must be destroyed before they can leave the plane. This reminds me of another book that I read earlier this year. The book it reminded me of is Operation Overflight where Powers had set activate his self destruct before he left the plane and was under strict orders to destroy the photography equipment before leaving the plane. This book has Louie in a bomber before he gets shot down which is something that I would want to fly. The aircraft that he was in they don’t use now but I still want to fly a bomber like Louie did, he didn’t fly it he just worked on the bomb sights. Before he got shot down Louie and his crew complete multiple missions where they dropped bombs on the Japanese after they attacked Pearl Harbor. They completed multiple successful missions and Louie was able to use both of the sights to hit his target. This part is similar to another book that I read this semester. The book is Flyboys which is about people flying missions into Japan during World War II. They both have them dropping bombs on targets but in Flyboys they also attack other aircraft. This book has reminded me of multiple books that I have read and I will probably read more books in the future that are similar to this one.
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