The breathtaking, never-before-told, true story of a historic
air- force bombing mission in 1943 Germany.
On September 6, 1943, three hundred and thirty-eight B-17 "Flying
Fortresses" of the American Eighth Air Force took off from England,
bound for Stuttgart, Germany, to bomb Nazi weapons factories.
Dense clouds obscured the targets, and one commander's critical
decision to circle three times over the city-and its deadly
flak-would prove disastrous. Forty-five planes went down that day,
and hundreds of men were lost or missing.
Focusing on first-person accounts of six of the B-17 airmen,
award- winning author Robert Mrazek vividly re-creates the fierce
air battle- and reveals the astonishing valor of the airmen who
survived being shot down, and the tragic fate of those who did
not.
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