Jimmy Stewart Bomber Pilot Author:Starr Smith Jimmy Stewart, Bomber Pilot chronicles the Hollywood star's long journey to become a bomber pilot in combat. Author Starr Smith recounts how Stewart's first battles were with the Army Air Corps high command, which insisted on keeping the naturally talented pilot out of harms way as an instructor pilot for B-17 Flying For... more »tresses and B-24 Liberators. We learn how, in 1944, Stewart managed to get assigned to a Liberator squadron deploying to England to join the mighty Eighth Air Force, and how, once in the thick of it, he rose to command his own squadron and flew 20 combat missions, including one to Berlin.
Written by a public relations officer assigned to Stewart, Jimmy Stewart, Bomber Pilot offers a fascinating, firsthand look at the making of a true American hero.« less
Some of it was interesting, but for the most part I was a bit bored by the book. There wasn't enough about his actual accounts of the war or his time in the service. It was a bit of a downer at times because of that.