B-17 Gunner
| Author | : Craig A. Kleinsmith |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2020-07-22 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781476683294 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1476683298 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (298 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis B-17 Gunner by : Craig A. Kleinsmith
Download or read book B-17 Gunner written by Craig A. Kleinsmith and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-07-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
