James “Jim” Davis lived what he thought of “an very unlikely dream” as he piloted a B-24, as a part of the eighth Air strength, on approximately thirty missions within the ecu Theatre in the course of global warfare II. during this memoir, Davis bargains heart-wrenching aspect in regards to the problems of qualifying for the U.S. military Air Forces pilot application, the strenuous nature of the pilot education software, the nervousness because of a wartime marriage, and the risks of flying strive against missions over Nazi Germany. Few, if any, different memoirs give you the genuineness and honesty of his tale. From his struggles to turn into a pilot, to seeing dying up shut on his first project, to his anticipated deployment to the Pacific Theatre within the fall of 1945, Davis takes the reader via a fast moving and fascinating narrative event. Davis and his group flew aid missions for Operations Cobra and industry backyard and diverse bombing missions over occupied Europe in the summertime and fall of 1944. He piloted his B-24 on missions over twenty German towns, together with Cologne, Hamburg, Metz, and Munich, and attacked enemy airfields, aircraft factories, railroad marshalling yards, send yards, oil refineries, and chemical crops. whereas he and his staff survived with no critical accidents, they witnessed the destruction of a lot of their neighbors’ planes and skilled critical harm to their very own aircraft on numerous events. Readers of his memoir will come away with a miles larger appreciation for the problems and hazards of the air battle in international battle II. David Snead occurred upon the memoir and its writer in the course of his time at Texas Tech college. He used to be instantly hooked and started the method of getting ready it for book. Snead met with Davis on numerous events, tested his army documents, researched intimately on the nationwide records, and investigated a number of released resources which will corroborate the account and upload explanatory notes for context.