Black Sunday: When Weather Claimed the US Fifth Air Force

"...a thorough account of the event and presents how dangerous the war was even away from combat." —Aeroscale

Any USAAF pilot who flew the mission to Hollandia on the fateful afternoon of 16 April 1944 in New Guinea would remember it for the rest of their lives. So would anyone else in the theater, for the weather—related losses that fateful day earned it the eternal epithet “Black Sunday”. The way home for more than three hundred bombers and fighters was blocked by a towering weather front ...