B-17 Gunner

<p> 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.</p>