So, you want to know what it feels like to ride into battle in an unpressurized B-17 aircraft at 28,000 feet, 40, 50, 60 degrees below zero, knowing that at any second or millisecond jagged pieces of razor sharp shrapnel could travel through vital sections of your flesh, bones, organs and tissue. And if you have to jump, it's a little high.

Like Bill used to say, "Don't worry about the ones you can see. Worry about the ones you can't."

MWSA (Military Writers Society of America)
A wartime injustice is righted in this crisp, succinctly written memoir of a B 17 flight crew member who tells of the heroism, and tragedy of his pilot of more than 25 combat missions flown out of Italy during World War Two. Written by the brother of that pilot, the reader is given a chilling glimpse into the rigors, and horrors of those young men who flew the big bombers deep into enemy territory, on lengthy, harrowing missions.

1LT Bill Flynn was a professional, dependable, and much trusted pilot whose war time record was exemplary, if not magnificent. Shortly after the war ended he was wrongfully, disgracefully accused of deeds of which he was entirely innocent, and he paid a terrible professional, and personal price. As told to Flynn's brother Jack, crew member Al Kotler, recounts the story of 1LT Flynn, his war time valor, and the final betrayal by the army air corps that he so proudly served. The result is this magnificent little gem of a book that does not waste a single word in telling it like it was. The proud, and honorable way that 1LT Flynn lived the remainder of his life after his betrayal, is redeeming, but the reader is left with a smoldering anger that something like this could have, and did happen. That is what makes the book so believable, and real.
Review by Bob Flournoy, MWSA Reviewer (October 2010)

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