183 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w photographs. "The year is 1943. Hitler's troops hold the European continent, and the Western Allies are bringing the war to the German homeland with a round-the-clock bombing campaign. Sergeant Jack Novey, an eighteen-year-old volunteer from the streets of Chicago, is hurled into the meatgrinder of the air war over France and Germany. He becomes a waist gunner on the ten-man crew of the 'Black Hawk', one B-17 among the hundreds operating out of English bases. Flying beyond the range of protecting fighters and into the teeth of the Luftwaffe, Jack and his crewmates go on some of the most dangerous and controversial raids of the war. Against heavy odds, they complete their 25 combat missions and live to tell about it." Dust jacket has very miner edge wrinkling, very light rubbing.

World  War  II,  Gunners,  Black  Hawk,  B-17,  Luftwaffe,  Aerial  Operations,  Personal  Narratives,  Bomber,  Eighth  Air  Force,  USAAF,  Machine  Guns,  Anit-aircraft,  Schweinfurt,  Army  Life,  Flying  Fortress,  Me-109,  P-47,  P-51,  Mustang,  Spitfire,  Dominic  Beneditto,  Charles  Blumenfeld,  Bremen,  Chicago,  Civilians,  Cold,  Ray  Eisenhower,  John  Euhas,  Jay  Epright,  George  Fabian,  Flying  Gear,  Oxygen  Masks,  Parachutes,  Sam  Hartman,  Russell  Hubner,  Victor  Hunt,  London,  Luftwaffe,  Airsickness,  Combat  Missions,  Gunnery,  Archie  Old,  Paris,  Royal  Air  Force,  RAF,  Schweinfurt,  William  Shields,  Heath  Snetterton,  James  Spell,  James  Tolbert,  James  Travis,  United  States  Army  Air  Corps,  96th  Bomb  Group,  388th  Bomb  Group,  Weapons,  Ammunition.