B-17 Gunner: Charles M. Eyer, Survivor Of 59 Combat Missions And A Year In Nazi Captivity

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 his 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.

• | Author: Craig A. Kleinsmith
• | Publisher: McFarland
• | Publication Date: Jul 08, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 225 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 1476683298
• | ISBN-13: 9781476683294