Simultaneously exhilarating and terrifying, " Tom's War: Flying with the U.S. Eighth Army Air Force in Europe, 1944" portrays the training and combat experiences of Thomas D. Hammond. Hammond, a child of the Great Depression, braved the flak-filled skies of Europe in 1944 as copilot of a B-17 Flying Fortress for the U.S. Army.
Hammond represents tens of thousands of young Americans who were proud to risk their lives in the skies over Germany. Although Hammond came home, many did not, including two of his close friends. Hammond's son, author James T. Hammond, brilliantly immortalizes his...
Simultaneously exhilarating and terrifying, " Tom's War: Flying with the U.S. Eighth Army Air Force in Europe, 1944" portrays the training and comb...
Simultaneously exhilarating and terrifying, " Tom's War: Flying with the U.S. Eighth Army Air Force in Europe, 1944" portrays the training and combat experiences of Thomas D. Hammond. Hammond, a child of the Great Depression, braved the flak-filled skies of Europe in 1944 as copilot of a B-17 Flying Fortress for the U.S. Army.
Hammond represents tens of thousands of young Americans who were proud to risk their lives in the skies over Germany. Although Hammond came home, many did not, including two of his close friends. Hammond's son, author James T. Hammond, brilliantly immortalizes his...
Simultaneously exhilarating and terrifying, " Tom's War: Flying with the U.S. Eighth Army Air Force in Europe, 1944" portrays the training and comb...
