12 O'Clock High Author:Beirne Lay, Jr. and Sy Bartlett "Forget about twenty-five missions - and going home," the General told them. "Consider yourselves already dead!"
For every flier in the 918th Bomber Group, the enemy was not Germany but their own commander - a fighting general who spared neither himself nor his men, and never asked how much a man could bear.
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