Author: O'Neill, Brian D.,
Title: Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer: B-17s over Germany.
Description: NY, McGraw Hill, (1999). Spec revisd ed. VG lg sz PB. Bombing raids over Nazi Germany by B-17 combat crews with veteran interviews, 90 new photos & illus, epilogue with. crewmen's post-war careers. B-17 crews of the Eighth Air Force flew harrowing unescorted daylight bombing missions deep into Occupied Europe and Germany. A firsthand blow-by-blow account of these perilous invasions as they really happened. O'Neill is the Generqa Counsel of Curtis-Wright Corporation, the famous aviation company that manufactured the Curtiss P-40 fighter and the B-17's Wright Cyclone engines during WWII. He served with the Navy as a destroyed gunner officer and shipyard repair officer.

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