B-17 Gunner: Charles M. Eyer, Survivor of 59 Combat Missions and a Year in Nazi Captivity

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.

Author: Craig A. Kleinsmith
Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
Published: 07/08/2020
Pages: 225
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.80w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781476683294
ISBN10: 1476683298
BISAC Categories:
- History | Wars & Conflicts | World War II | General
- History | Military | Aviation & Space
- Biography & Autobiography | General

About the Author
Craig A. Kleinsmith is a retired United States Army Master Sergeant, and is also retired from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania.