Unsung Eagles: Stories of Americas Citizen Airmen in the Skies of World War II

The nearly half-million American airmen who served during World War II have almost disappeared. And so have their stories. In Unsung Eagles, award-winning writer and former fighter pilot Jay Stout has saved an exciting collection of those accounts from oblivion. These are not rehashed tales from the hoary icons of the war. Rather, they are stories from the masses of largely unrecognized men whoin the aggregateactually won it. These are everyman accounts that are important but fast disappearing. Ray Crandall describes how he was nearly knocked into the Pacific by a heavy cruisers main battery during the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea. Jesse Barkera displaced dive-bomber pilottells of dodging naval bombardments in the stinking mud of Guadalcanal. Bob Popeney relates how his friend and fellow A-20 pilot was blown out of formation by German antiaircraft fire: I could see the inside of the airplaneand I could see Nordstrom's eyes. He looked confusedand then immediately he flipped up and went tumbling down. See more