Bloody Skies: A 15th Aaf B-17 Combat Crew : How They Lived and Died
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781881325062 (1881325067)
Publish date: October 1st 1993
Publisher: Yucca Tree Pr
Pages no: 424
Edition language: English
McGuire had always wanted to be a pilot. Because he didn't qualify, he was assigned to be the waist gunner of a B-17. He was sent to Amendola in 1944 to become part of the 2nd Bomber Group. The casualty rate among aircrews was exceedingly high. The day his replacement aircraft arrived the crew's fir...