The Fall of Fortresses Quotes

“Mechanical things when they are grand as plumed Fortresses flashing in the morning become endowed with divine invincibility.”
― Elmer Bendiner, The Fall of Fortresses: The Classic Account of One of the Most Daring and Deadly Air Battles of WWII

“We followed her as she took off, climbed and wheeled, flinging back the sun. One B-17 is not like another. Each has its crotchets and its graces. Once it has absorbed its share of lives and deaths it can live, be loved and die.”
― Elmer Bendiner, The Fall of Fortresses: The Classic Account of One of the Most Daring and Deadly Air Battles of WWII