We’re once more in the pacific looking at what must be the longest dog fight in history of a single B-17 Bomber against a swarm of Japanese Zero fighters! If not the longest dog fight of the war!
I’m joined by Bob Drury,
Bob, along with his co-author Tom Calvin aren’t strangers to the Pacific theatre having previously penned Halsey’s Typhoon, their latest book Lucky 666 follows the crew of a B-17 bomber who volunteer to undertake a solo reconnaissance mission, even from the outset it seems like a suicide mission!
[…] Bob Drury, if that name sounds familiar it’s because I chatted to Bob in episode 30 talking about Old 666. He wondered what I had planned for the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral […]