Sgt. James Raley's account came almost three months to the day after he improbably survived that fall from the skies over ...

David Kingsley’s B-17 was about to crash ... Without hesitation, Kingsley removed his chute, fit it to his wounded tail-gunner and helped the man out of the aircraft. As his crew descended ...

His books include Spaceport Earth: The Reinvention of Spaceflight and Inferno: The True Story of a B-17 Gunner’s Heroism and the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History, due out in ...