Cover of A Wing and a Prayer: The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Action Over Europe in World War II

A Wing and a Prayer: The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Action Over Europe in World War II

The true story of a World War II air force navigator and his courageous peers in a bomb group that flew missions over Germany. The book describes the missions the author flew, accounts of life with the boisterous 100th and an evaluation of the strain of the constant exposure to death and danger.

Subject
history
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 336 pages

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