An Eighth Air Force Combat Diary: Combat Missions Flown with the 100th Bomb Group, England 1944-1945
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Fly with 1st Lt. John A. Clark in the cockpit of the famous B-17 "Flying Fortress" during his 32 bombing missions over Germany in WWII. Experience the terror of flying at 28,000 feet amidst enemy flak and fighter planes during the winter of 1944-1945. Lt. Clark flew as the co-pilot of a "fFlying Fortress" with "The Bloody Hundreth", the famous 100th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force. After each of his missions, Lt. Clark recorded a diary describing his combat experience. These diaries are being published for the first time in over 60 years. His unfolding stories provide a realistic and chilling account of aerial combat in the brutal air war over Europe. Several "war stories", all true, provide additional drama and a little humor to this firsthand account of this WWII combat pilot. Witness the remarkable photographs from the authors personal collection that tell and show the story of near misses from flak and the dramatic dropping of 500 pound bombs on German targets during heavy German counter attacks with flak and fighter bombers.
About the Author
John A. Clark is Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan and a 1948 engineering graduate of U of M. After receiving his Master's and Doctor's degrees from MIT, he served on the research and teaching staff at MIT and the U of M for 50 years in the fields of Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, Thermal and Nuclear Power, Space Propulsion Systems and Solar Energy. During this period he has also been an engineering consultant in the field of Thermal Processes. He and his wife Marie, herself a former Women's Air Force Pilot (WASP) make their home in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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