B-17 Gunner: Charles M. Eyer, Survivor of 59 Combat Missions and a Year in Nazi Captivity

By: Kleinsmith, Craig A.

For three years, Staff Sergeant Charles M. Eyer served as a B-17 ball turret gunner over Europe during World War II. Based in part on a secret journal he kept as a prisoner of war, this book records Eyer's firsthand account of his harrowing 59 combat missions (B-17 crewmen could not expect to survive 10), his escape from a burning B-17 deep inside Germany, the horrors of confinement in a Nazi POW camp, and his survival of an 80-day forced march during the brutal winter of 1944-45.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476683298
• ISBN13: 9781476683294
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher