Jimmy Stewart Bomber Pilot

Jimmy Stewart was one of the few Hollywood celebrities to actually serve in a combat role during WWII. He actually had to pull strings to get into combat. He ended up flying 20 missions in B-24 bombers based in East Anglia (an area north of London centered around Norwich). He joined the army a few months before WWII as a Private and by the end of the war he was a full Colonel. I was especially interested in this book because he flew the same type of bomber at about the same time as the Hetzler Crew. Stewart was always an epitome of himself and by all of the accounts in this book, he was pretty much the same man in real life as on screen. Many quoted him as we know him: "Aw shucks fellas" or "just a doggone minute now". Interestingly, his first role in Hollywood after the war was as George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life! I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the air war in Europe or in Jimmy Stewart.