
"Written from the unusual perspective of a navigator, this is a compelling account of the air war against Germany." --Publishers Weekly They began operations out of England in the spring of '43. They flew their Flying Fortresses almost daily against strategic...

The true story of a World War II air force navigator and his courageous peers in a bomb group that flew missions over Germany. The book describes the missions the author flew, accounts of life with the boisterous 100th and an evaluation of the strain of the constant exposure...


They began operations out of England in the spring of '43. They flew their Flying Fortresses almost daily against strategic targets in Europe in the name of freedom. Their astonishing courage and appalling losses earned them the name that resounds in the annals of aerial warfare...

A personal account of a 1943 Group Navigator for the Bloody 100th Air Force bomb group describes his thirty-seven missions aboard the B-17s, recounting his team's triumphs, losses, near-escapes, and aerial warfare adventures. Reprint.




They began operations out of England in the spring of '43. They flew their Flying Fortresses almost daily against strategic targets in Europe in the name of freedom. Their astonishing courage and appalling losses earned them the name that resounds in the annals of aerial warfare...