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This is a true story about aninnocent 18-year old plucked from his small hometown in California who foundhimself at 19 riding in the nose of a heavy bomber under conditions he couldnot possibly have imagined. The book explores the excruciating tension betweenhis innocence and the raw reality of war. As a bombardier riding in a Plexiglas compartment, the author had a unique vantage point from which he could behold grand vistas. He witnessed the beauty of clouds and the highaltitude sky, the ever-changing scene below of sea, mountains, rivers and towns. But he also observed armadas of bombers stretching out ahead like flocksof geese, the horrifying barrages of black antiaircraft fire, the menace ofenemy interceptors and the heartbreaking spectacle of wounded bombers. This book follows the everyday activities of a bombardier in the 8th Air Force during World War II. There are no heroics in this account other than thecourage of men who performed their jobs despite withering enemy opposition andthe ever-present specter of sudden death. It is a collage of agonizingapprehensions, numbing fright, occasional pride, bitter disappointments, abjectloneliness, fits of anger and even good times. The author wrote the book in 1st person, present tense so that, in a sense, the reader could ride with him inthe glassed-in nose of a B-17. He bolstered his recollections of each missionwith raw facts gleaned from tattered and yellowing mission reports that are filed in neat folders in the National Archives in Washington, D.C. and from numerous letters sent to andkept by his parents.
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Charles N. Stevens, or Norm ashis friends call him, grew up in Inglewood, California. At 18 he joined the Army Air Corps. He entered in April 1943 and was dischargedafter the war in October 1946. He served as a bombardier on a B-17 in the 8thAir Force, 351st Bomb Group, at Polebrook, England during the summerand early fall of 1944. He finished his tour of duty, completing 34 bombingmissions over Germanyand occupied France, Belgium and Holland. After returning from overseas hetrained as a radar bombardier at Langley Field, Virginia and Williams Field, Arizona. He was to be assigned to a B-29 crew for duty in the Pacific when thewar ended. Following the war he enrolled at U.C.L.A., graduating with a BA in psychology. After a series of graduate courses, he earned his teaching credential. Over a span of 32 years he taught generalscience and mathematics in junior high school and English and literature inhigh school. While teaching he earned a master's degree in English atCalifornia State College at Los Angeles. He has two sons by a previousmarriage, Jeffry L. Stevens and Greg E. Stevens and fivegrandchildren - Brenda, Sharon, Eric, Michael and Beth. He retired in 1984 and has liveda life of reading, writing, traveling and being a grandfather. He lives withhis wife, Dolores Seidman, in Monterey Park, Californiawhere they have resided for 32 years.
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