"I'm in this plane about to go miles and miles across the ocean, with a good chance I'm not returning. I'm in a cramped space that's hot. If I'm not going to be shot down, I'm going to die of heat ...
The United States Army Air Forces fielded two major air arms for the Allied invasion of France in 1944. The more famous of the two was the Eighth Air Force, the strategic arm whose four-engine bombers ...