B 17 Bomber Crew over Germany

You finished the series, closed the laptop, and wanted the real thing: one crew, their real names, and what a full tour over Germany actually cost them. Most books hand you a pilot's account or a wall of squadron statistics. You want to sit inside the airplane.

This audiobook follows a single documented B-17 crew of one Eighth Air Force bomb group from stateside training to their final mission, told from the navigator's table and the waist gunner's window. Early in the first mission you get a plain explanation of how ten men and a bomb group actually work, so every later call over the interphone makes sense. Between missions you cross the lines to meet the Luftwaffe fighter pilots and flak crews waiting below. A downloadable crew list, route map and sources note come with the download.

Eight to nine hours later you will know these men the way their families did. Press play and take your seat on the flight line.