New Price --- WWII Eighth Air Force Books New-- B- 17 Memories from Memphis Belle to Victory Also: Through These Eyes The Boys in the B-17 Bombs Away! *** View the free DVD -- Wings Over Europe My Smithville – an interview with the author Online at: “ Barnes &Noble-James Hutchinson” “Amazon-James Hutchinson” Liberty Belle Foundation Authorhouse 1-888-280-7715 Prices reduced: Autographed copies- $17 + $5 postage Four books $64 +$12.50 postage ([email protected] or 331 Boyd Lane Bedford, IN 47421 812-275- 4308 *Author was honored by Indiana General Assembly (Senate and House) February 2008 T/Sgt. James Lee Hutchinson served 20 missions as radio operator/gunner on the Lt. William D. Templeton crew of the 490th Bomb Group (H), Squadron 848 at Eye, England. He writes to record and preserve veterans’ memories which would have been lost. Eighth Air Force combat in 1942-45; the survivors, POWs and the boys who died --- too young to vote, but old enough to fight! Numerous photos and stories tell of young airmen flying 25,000 feet on oxygen at 40 degrees below zero to face enemy fighters and flak over the target! The black smoke of exploding 88 mm shells looked harmless, but filled the sky with shrapnel like a giant shotgun shell. A direct hit knocked bombers out of the sky; a lost engine or fire meant dropping out of formation to face enemy fighters alone or bailing out to become German prisoners of war (POW.) 1.More than 150 stories of WW II airmen of 8th and 15th Air Forces flying bombing missions with poor odds of survival the greatest air war in history..-- 2, The horrible life in prisoner of war camps, as told by former POW airmen. 3. Ground troops, GI’s who battled for every foot of ground from D-Day, Battle of the Bulge to Berlin.-- 4. The Holocaust with six million Jews murdered in concentration campsThe black smoke of exploding 88 mm shells looked harmless, but filled the sky with shrapnel like a giant shotgun shell. A direct hit knocked bombers out of the sky; a lost engine or fire meant dropping out of formation to face enemy fighters alone or bailing out to become German prisoners of war (POW.) Hutch says, “Violent death and wounds were facts of life for the boys on heavy bombers. Flying missions at the age of nineteen, I often wondered if I wonder ever see my twentieth birthday. My crew members, my lucky Air Cadet ring, thirteen .50 caliber machine guns and a tough B- 17 Flying Fortress contributed to my survival. However, I’m certain God and my mother’s prayers brought me through it all!” . “Freedom and Democracy is a gift from the men and women of the Greatest Generation!’’
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