Flying Fortress Gunner: B-17 Ball Turret Gunner Bob Harper's 35 Combat Missions over Germany Fake News personal letters

personal letters

With the outcome of the Civil War in the balance

Packed with explanatory footnotes

by Carolyn Ivanoff

The book also discusses the relationship between Jack and Jennie Wade and contains five previously unpublished letters from Jennie to Jack

Flying Fortress Gunner: B-17 Ball Turret Gunner Bob Harper's 35 Combat Missions over Germany Fake News personal lettersby Bill Cullen The biography of Bob Harper, a B 17 ball turret gunner with the 8th Air Force who survived 35 combat missions over Germany in WWII, and was shot down twice. At 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weighing just 110 pounds, Bob Harper was below the minimum size requirements for US military service. As the demand for manpower increased, rules were bent, Harpers deferment was retracted, and he was drafted into the Army. Harper was deployed to the