I'm currently reading "Masters Of The Air" It tells how and why the 8TH Air Force was formed and not just about the 100th Bomb Group. It also goes into detail of the slaughter of the aircrews during the early bombing missions over Europe.
If you enjoy WWII history I recommend it.
Yes I saw the TV series which was very good.
I just finished "Lightning Down" which was an outstanding read along with being both sad/angry and joy to read of a very little known act in WWII. When Joe Moser first told his story to ones that should have known better they thought he was lying about what he had lived through.
I have read how the Japs treated POWs.
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption is a 2010 non-fiction book by
Laura Hillenbrand.
Unbroken is a
biography of
World War II veteran
Louis Zamperini, a former Olympic track star who survived a plane crash in the
Pacific Theater, spent 47 days drifting on a raft, and then survived more than two and a half years as a
prisoner of war (POW) in three Japanese POW camps.
The treatment to these Airmen by the German SS was much worse.
An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive.
On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his forty-fourth combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's
Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story.
Moser was just twenty-two years old, a farm boy from Washington State who fell in love with flying. During the War he realized his dream of piloting a P-38 Lightning, one of the most effective weapons the Army Air Corps had against the powerful German Luftwaffe. But on that hot August morning he had to bail out of his damaged, burning plane. Captured immediately, Moser's journey into hell began.
Moser and his courageous comrades from England, Canada, New Zealand, and elsewhere endured the most horrific conditions during their imprisonment... until the day the orders were issued by Hitler himself to execute them. Only a most desperate plan would save them.
An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive.
On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his forty-fourth combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's
Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story.
Moser was just twenty-two years old, a farm boy from Washington State who fell in love with flying. During the War he realized his dream of piloting a P-38 Lightning, one of the most effective weapons the Army Air Corps had against the powerful German Luftwaffe. But on that hot August morning he had to bail out of his damaged, burning plane. Captured immediately, Moser's journey into hell began.
Moser and his courageous comrades from England, Canada, New Zealand, and elsewhere endured the most horrific conditions during their imprisonment... until the day the orders were issued by Hitler himself to execute them. Only a most desperate plan would save them.
