Wild Blue

by Stephen E. Ambrose

Carrying a heavier payload than the glamorous B-17 Flying Fortress, the B-24, nicknamed the Liberator, also filled the skies over Germany.

South Dakota-born George S. McGovern was 22 when he became a B-24 pilot in the 741st Bomb Squadron, based in Cerignola, Italy. Though basing the book largely on McGovern's 35 missions, for which he won the Distinguished Flying Cross, Ambrose includes many other stories about the men who flew over Germany and eastern Europe.

Ambrose follows pilots and crews from start to finish - where they were from, their backgrounds, training, bravery and heroism as they did their part to help win the war.

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