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Informationen zum Autor By George Webster Klappentext Gives the reader a firsthand look at war from inside a B-17 bomber in World War II Focuses on the 92nd Bomb Group, 8th Air Force and includes missions to the Schweinfurt ball-bearing plant and Berlin One of the first accounts of being shot down over Sweden The Savage Sky is as close as you can get to experiencing aerial combat while still staying firmly planted on the ground. The writing is vivid and intimate, describing the bitter cold at high altitudes, gut-wrenching fear, lethal shrapnel from flak, and German fighters darting through the bomber formation like feeding sharks. Zusammenfassung The life expectancy of an American B-17 crew in Europe during World War II was eleven missions! yet crews had to fly twenty-five--and eventually thirty--before they could return home. Against these long odds the bomber crews of the U.S. 8th Air Force! based in England! joined the armada of Allied aircraft that pummeled Germany day after day. Inhaltsverzeichnis Lost Above the North Atlantic; Irish Interlude; A Death Sentence; Blimey! Home! Sweet Home; London; This is It; Lynch Mobs in Germany; Terror; Cold; Goodbye! Herb; Jane; Killer Influenza; Secret Mission; Hell over Schweinfurt; Barbiturates and Amphetamine; Wonderful Respite; Death Pays a Visit; The New Guys; Bad Day at Augsburg; Air Raid; Death Visits Again; Escape to the English Countryside; More Terror; Berlin Nightmare; A Life Preserver! If It Comes in Time; A New Way to Die; I Don't Think They Like Us; Ten Days with Jane; Trouble Ahead; Disaster.
