Wings of morning
Subtitle: the story of the last American bomber shot down over Germany in World War II
By: Thomas Childers.
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co.; Da Capo Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Reading, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American; Flight crews -- United States; World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Germany; Bombing, Aerial -- Germany; B-24 bomber
Description: On April 21, 1945, the twelve-member crew of the Black Cat set off on one of the last air missions in the European theater of WWII. Ten never came back. This is the story of that crew - where they came from, how they trained, what it was like to fly a B-24 through enemy flak, and who was waiting for them to come home.

Historian Thomas Childers, nephew of the Black Cat's radio operator, has reconstructed the lives and tragic deaths of these men through their letters home and through in-depth interviews, both with their families and with German villagers who lived near the crash site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-276).