{"product_id":"b17-gunner-9781476683294","title":"B17 Gunner","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 1. Pre-War Life 9\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 2. The Making of a Gunner 12\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 3. North Africa 31\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 4. New Crew and New Adventures 61\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 5. Return to Hell 70\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 6. Day of Days—May 12, 1944 87\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 7. Stalag Luft IV 109\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 8. The March 140\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 9. Liberation 175\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10. Postwar 183\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpilogue 189\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendices\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA. POW Journal 193\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eB. POW Postcards 199\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eC. Letter to Mother 202\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eD. Liberation Journal 203\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Notes 207\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography 213\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex 215\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040484294999,"sku":"9781476683294","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476683294.jpg?v=1750946898","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/b17-gunner-9781476683294","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}