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Into the Inferno (Hardback)

Over Nazi-occupied Europe with a B-17 Waist Gunner

Aviation > Aviation Biography & Memoirs

Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Pages: 192
Illustrations: 30 photographs
ISBN: 9781636245584
Published: 15th March 2025

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The temperature was 40 degrees below zero when fighter planes screamed out of the clouds, puncturing the fuselage with a spray of machinegun fire and sending the bomber beside them into a death spin. This was followed by intense flak, as a hundred cannons on the ground tried to blow them out of the sky.

When they finally made it back to the base, another enemy awaited them: homesickness, crushing boredom, relentless cold, and more mud than they could imagine.

Bert Ibelle was a 19-year-old freshman at Dartmouth College when he enlisted in the Army Air Corps to fly dozens of bomber missions over Nazi-occupied Europe and win the Purple Heart. His buddy, Fran Brighenti, served as an infantry marksman on the opposite side of the globe, slogging through the steaming jungles of the Philippine and the fiery hell of Okinawa.

Their wars couldn’t have been more different, nor could their approach to life. While the ever-exuberant Fran was a ladies man, Bert only had eyes for “Red,” the girl back home who was in love with another young man.

This is their story—one that combines terror, humor, friendship, and a son’s search for his elusive father.

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