Twelve O'Clock High

By Beirne Lay Jr, Sy Bartlett,

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This book came out a few years after World War II ended and became a movie and later a TV series.

I started watching the TV series when I was quite young, and in that impressionable time I was sure when I grew up I’d fly B-17s for General Savage and the 918th Bomb Group. This despite the fact that I was well aware of modern jet bombers like the B-52!

The book itself taught me a lot about what it’s like to command a bomb group during an air war. It contains one of the most detailed and exquisitely…

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