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not home for christmas a day in the life of the mighty eighth
when author john meurs was a nine year old schoolboy living in nazi occupied holland an american b 17 bomber crashed behind his house near the village of apeldoorn . the date was sunday november 26 1944 . p meurs always wanted to know more about what happened in the air on that thanksgiving sunday . so more than sixty years later he started researching his b 17 . he quickly found that the bomber was part of the 8th air force air combat command . p meurs findings intrigued him and after discovering many interesting facts meurs focused his research on the 34 heavy bombers of the mighty eighth that were lost that day . he collected the personal stories of veterans who lived through it families of veterans lost and witnesses of the crashes . these first hand recollections captured in this book provide a compelling and terrifying account of the reality of war . p thanks to the noble men of the mighty eighth who would not be home for christmas in 1944 and their comrades in arms ma