Deadly Sky
The American Combat Airman in World War II

If you want to know what life was like for the US Airmen in WWII, this is your book. The first-hand accounts make for exciting reading, and the contents are arranged by topics which make it easy for a researcher to find the information she needs. My only criticism is that sometimes there are too man......more

Review of Deadly Sky Deadly Sky: The American Combat Airmen in World War II was an excellent review of individual stories. It retold stories of terrible losses of young Americans in their friends' own words. This book is gritty, at times pondering and difficult. It is just like the real stories it te......more

There isn't really a theme it's more a memoir for soldiers who have fallen in the line of duty it talk about many of the great airmen stories and what hardships they had to go through.......more

A bit of sociology with an oral history grafted on top. He switches back and forth between the ETO and the PTO far too often and without reason. Casual reader could be very confused by this. I wish he had divided the book into two ses sections covering each theater respectively. And it's very obviou......more

This is a book where the reader will experience the honest, raw accounts of what the air war was like for American airmen during World War II --- from the airmen themselves.......more