Or Go Down in Flame

“The engrossing story of an American professor’s quest to learn how his older brother was killed in WWII . . . many poignant moments” ( Publishers Weekly ). “Black Thursday,” the second Schweinfurt raid, was the most savagely fought air battle in US history and a milestone in the course of World War II. On October 14, 1943, the US Eighth Air Force launched nearly three hundred bombers deep into German territory to destroy the ball-bearing plants at Schweinfurt, hoping this would bring enemy indu