Overview
On an early morning in the fall of 1942, Kemp McLaughlin's group set out for a raid on a French target. Immediately after dropping its bombs, McLaughlin's plane was hit. A huge fire burned a four-foot hole in his wing, his waist gunner bailed out, his radio operator was wounded, the plane lost all oxygen, and his pilot put on a parachute and sat on the escape hatch, waiting for the plane to explode. And this was only McLaughlin's first sortie. McLaughlin went on to pilot the mission command plan
- | Author: J. Kemp McLaughlin
- | Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
- | Publication Date: Mar 03, 2006
- | Number of Pages: 248 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0813191599
- | ISBN-13: 9780813191591
