Author Name
Novey, Jack. Edited and with introduction by Fryar Calhoun.
Title THE COLD BLUE SKY: A B-17 GUNNER IN WORLD WAR TWO.
Binding Hard Cover
Book Condition Fine
Jacket Condition Very Good+
Edition First Edition
Publisher Charlottesville, Virginia Howell 1997
ISBN Number
1574270664 / 9781574270662
Seller ID 12743
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.
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