B-17 Gunner
Author: Craig A. Kleinsmith
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2020-07-08
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1476683298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor 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.