On September 6, 1943, 338 B-17 "Flying Fortresses" of the American Eighth
Air Force took off from England, bound for Stuttgart, Germany, to bomb
Nazi weapons factories. Dense clouds obscured the targets, and one commander's
critical decision to circle three times over the city---and its deadly
flak---would prove disastrous. Forty-five planes went down that day,
and hundreds of men were lost or missing. Focusing on first-person accounts
of six of the B-17 airmen, award-winning author Robert J. Mrazek vividly
re-creates the fierce air battle and reveals the astonishing valor of
the airmen who survived being shot down---and the tragic fate of those
who did not.

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