WORRYBIRD

<p><span style=color: rgba(89 89 89 1)>Utilizing the voices of the B-24 Liberator </span><em style=color: rgba(89 89 89 1)>Worrybird </em><span style=color: rgba(89 89 89 1)>and her</span><em style=color: rgba(89 89 89 1)> </em><span style=color: rgba(89 89 89 1)>crew the heroic and costly story of the air war over Europe unfolds.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><em style=color: rgba(89 89 89 1)>Can't see how a man can get through 50 missions. Am I capable of the job?</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em style=color: rgba(89 89 89 1)>Damn I hate that place.</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em style=color: rgba(89 89 89 1)>Stanley what the hell are you doing here?</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(89 89 89 1)>       Five out of seven ships lost. All four of us slept in the missing boys' tent. Slept on the floor.</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(89 89 89 1)>These are the diary reflections of three of the ten crewmembers of the B-24 Liberator </span><em style=color: rgba(89 89 89 1)>Worrybird.</em><span style=color: rgba(89 89 89 1)> She was born in Dallas Texas and built for one purpose only - to deliver up to four tons of bombs on Hitler's Nazi war machine. Worrybird is the saga of the air war over Europe told not only through the crew who flew her but also through </span><em style=color: rgba(89 89 89 1)>Worrybird</em><span style=color: rgba(89 89 89 1)> herself the eleventh crewmember.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(89 89 89 1)>As with her human crew </span><em style=color: rgba(89 89 89 1)>Worrybird</em><span style=color: rgba(89 89 89 1)> experiences a range of emotions beginning with terror during their cross-country flight to Florida. She becomes lost over the empty waters of the Atlantic on her way to Africa almost becoming a casualty before encountering a single Messerschmitt bullet or Flak shell. She and her crew feel despair and utter helplessness after the loss of so many of her fellow B-24s of the 449th Bomb Group based out of Grottaglie Italy. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(89 89 89 1)>Author Roderick Stanley not only delivers the true tales of missions survived but also the lighter side of war as </span><em style=color: rgba(89 89 89 1)>Worrybird</em><span style=color: rgba(89 89 89 1)> and her crew temporarily escape the continuously unfolding drama at 20000 feet. From egg fry gatherings in their tent poker games generously lubricated with Seagram's V.O. meeting the local people during shopping trips into nearby towns to spending R&R sailing on the blue-green Adriatic Worrybird envelopes all the emotions of their wartime experience. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(89 89 89 1)>Intertwining three of </span><em style=color: rgba(89 89 89 1)>Worrybird</em><span style=color: rgba(89 89 89 1)>'s officers' diaries with Army Air Corps mission records Stanley evokes a narrative that is historically accurate while maintaining the prose of an easily read novel. </span></p>