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This insightful chronicle will take listeners inside the encounters of America's fighter pilots and bomber crews, an unbelievable range of men who, in almost four years of warfare around the world, suffered over 120,000 casualties, with over 40,000 killed. Their stories course the planet earth, into every corner of the combat theaters in both Europe and the Pacific. And the aircraft explored are as assorted, tough, and legendary as the men who flew them - from the indomitable heavy-duty warhorse that was the B-17 Flying Fortress to the sleek, lethal P-51 Mustang fighter. In Deadly Sky, grasp historian John C. McManus runs beyond the familiar tales of aerial heroism, taking the sights and looks, the toil and dread, the adrenaline and the pain of the North american airmen who faced fatality with every mission. Within this important, thoroughly-researched work, McManus uncovers the true nature of struggling with - and dying - in the skies over World Battle II.
