![]() ![]() The bomber crews were an elite group of warriors. The Eighth Air Force lost more men in the war than the US Marine Corps. ![]() In 1943 an American bomber crewman stood only a one-in-five chance of surviving his tour of duty. But they had a much greater chance of dying than ground soldiers. Unlike infantrymen, bomber boys slept on clean sheets, drank beer in local pubs, and danced to the music of Glenn Miller’s Air Force Band. Air combat was deadly but intermittent: periods of inactivity and anxiety were followed by short bursts of fire and fear. With the narrative power of fiction, this is a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden.įighting at 25,000 feet in thin, freezing air no warriors had encountered before, bomber crews battled new kinds of assaults on body and mind. This is the dramatic story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler’s doorstep. ![]()
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