Another week, another book it seems (churning through is a good thing if you saw how many i had left to read).

This time it is The Bomber Boys by Travis L Ayres. The book follows 5 inviduals, all of them Crew members on Boeing B-17 Bombers during World War 2 (4 of them with the 8th Air Force, 1 with the 15th). All of them flew over Europe during World War 2 and all seemed to have an amazing story to their time they served.

Unlike most books of this type, this one follows 5 different individuals who did not know each other at all during the war. All of them served with different units and different bomber crews. So because of this you get 5 different perspectives on the war. 5 different stories and events of time served in Europe, 5 different men who all had different jobs as well (not just pilots as usual).

Some good stories are in this book including a Bomber crew member who fell out of his aircraft and didnt have time to pull his parachute after he came out of the blackout caused when it exploded (and lived!). An amazing good short book that helped me get a different perspective to what is definately a widely published style of book.