num_pages: 368
description: Moving past the romance and myth of military aviation, the author reveals the dangerous and often fatal business of flying bombers and fighter planes over enemy territory during World War II--a conflict that saw 120,000 casualties among American aviators, 40,000 of them fatal.
language: English
title: Deadly Sky: The American Combat Airman in World War II
titlecomplete: Deadly Sky: The American Combat Airman in World War II
genres: American History, Military History, World War II, Aviation, Nonfiction, War, History
ratings_count: 202
publisher: Presidio Press