B-17 Gunner

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 this 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