Aerial Gunners: The Unknown Aces of World War II

by Charles A. Watry and Duane L. Hall

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0914379011
• ISBN13: 9780914379010
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Charles Watry
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Aerial Gunners: The Unknown Aces of WW-II

This is a really good book giving descriptive detail of what those guys went thru. Action packed with historical foundation included. However... pages 27 thru 56 are missing and it appears in my copy as though the publisher completely overlooked this fact when they received it from the printer. I've tried to get in touch with the publisher, but so far.. no luck.

History as told by the men who lived it

My hat is off to the men who flew in the heavy bombers of WWII. This book captures their stories, many by first hand recount. These were young men in their late teens and early twenties, who flew into enemy territory again and again, mission after mission, while the enemy tried to shoot them out of the sky with fighters, rockets and AAA. Fighter pilots got all the glory. Now hear the story of the enlisted men who shot back and scored!

Great resource

The fact that I've never seen another book on this subject alone qualifies it for five stars. The subject is gunners in American bombers during World War II. Many of them have interesting stories to tell, and they're here in this book. The book isn't impressive in appearance. In fact, it has the look of something that was self-published. But you are not likely to find any other book on this subject.Short chapters and the fact that it's not a continuing narrative make it easy to skip around and read what interests you.