Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

by Donald L. Miller

As Andy Rooney noted, “the worst kind of censorship has always been the kind that newspaper people impose on themselves.”

In ground combat, for every soldier killed, three or four were wounded. In the Army Air Forces in World War II, over three times as many men were killed as wounded.

Strafing took more nerve than skill and, statistically, was five times as dangerous as escort duty.

One POW told his wife to have the bedroom ceiling repainted in her favorite color; she would be seeing a lot of it when he returned.

“Only one person ever got any benefit from the bombing of Dresden, and he is me,” Vonnegut said later. “I wrote an antiwar novel that made lots of money.”