: In 1943, the odds of surviving a full tour of 25 missions were approximately one-in-four. Key Themes
As Miller climbed down the hatch, his boots hitting the solid, unmoving earth, he looked up. The sky was quiet again, vast and blue and deceptively peaceful. He thought of the empty bunks that would be in the barracks tonight—the jackets still hanging on chairs, the unfinished letters to sweethearts in Ohio. Los amos del aire - Donald L. Miller.epub
bucked as a shell detonated nearby, sending shrapnel whistling through the fuselage like silver bees. Below them, the Earth was a blurred quilt of greens and browns, indifferent to the metal-on-metal violence screaming above it. : In 1943, the odds of surviving a