B-17 Gunner

Charles M. Eyer, Survivor of 59 Combat Missions and a Year in Nazi Captivity

Craig A. Kleinsmith (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

225 Seiten

2020
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-8329-4 (ISBN)

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Staff Sergeant Charles Eyer served as a B-17 ball turret gunner over Europe during World War II. Based in part a secret journal he kept as a prisoner of war, this book records Eyer's account of his 59 combat missions, his escape from a burning B-17, his confinement in a Nazi POW camp, and his 80-day forced march during the winter of 1944-45.

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.

Craig A. Kleinsmith is a retired United States Army Master Sergeant, and is also retired from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Pre-War Life

2. The Making of a Gunner

3. North Africa

4. New Crew and New Adventures

5. Return to Hell

6. Day of Days—May 12, 1944

7. Stalag Luft IV

8. The March

9. Liberation

10. Postwar

Epilogue

Appendices

A.POW Journal

B.POW Postcards

C.Letter to Mother

D.Liberation Journal

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.09.2020
Zusatzinfo	15 photos, appendices, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	290 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4766-8329-8 / 1476683298
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-8329-4 / 9781476683294
Zustand	Neuware