The Final Mission of Bottoms Up: A World War II Pilot's Story

by Dennis R. Okerstrom

On November 18, 1944, the end of the war in Europe finally in sight, American copilot Lieutenant Lee Lamar struggled alongside pilot Randall Darden to keep Bottoms Up, their B-24J Liberator, in the air. They and their crew of eight young men had believed the intelligence officer who, at the predawn briefing at their base in southern Italy, had confided that their mission that day would be a milk run. But that twenty-first mission out of Italy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826223141
• ISBN13: 9780826223142
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"