World War II Dispatches to Akron: An Airman's Letters Home

A bombardier's story of serving in the skies over Europe—and surviving in a POW camp—as told through his correspondence with his Ohio family.

On his twenty-sixth horrifying mission over the hostile skies of Nazi Europe, a charismatic bombardier, seated at the nose of a B-17, strapped on his parachute as his disintegrating bomber dropped uncontrollably to the ground. What got him to this point, the ensuing months behind barbed wire, and his daily letters written to his family in Akron, Ohio,...