His experiences as a B-17 gunner/bombardier in the European Theater during World War II. His youth in West Texas; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1943; Drake University, 1943; pre-flight training, Santa Ana, California, 1943; washing out of the Aviation Cadet Program due to his problems with depth perception; armament school, Lowry Air Force Base, Denver, Colorado, 1943; aerial gunnery school, Kingman, Arizona, 1943; gunnery instructors school, Fort Myers, Florida, 1944; assignment to a B-17 crew and phase training, Alexandria, Louisiana, 1944; assignment to the 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston, England, 1944; mission to Merseburg, Germany, 1944; description of combat against German fighters; German flak; a detailed description of his plane being shot down on his eighteenth mission, January 10, 1945; his wounds as a result of being hit by flak; the crash-landing of his plane; recuperation in England; postwar career.