MISSION: JIMMY STEWART and the FIGHT for EUROPE (audiobook) by Robert Matzen
Published in 2017 by Blackstone Audio. Read by Peter Berkrot. Duration: 11 hours, 45 minutes. Unabridged. The chief mechanic of the B-24 Liberator Nine Yanks and a Jerk sticking his head out of the hole blown through the cockpit by a piece of unexploded ordinance. Jimmy Stewart was in that cockpit on that flight. Just a few months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hollywood actor Jimmy Stewart was a new recruit in the U.S. Army angling for the chance to fly a bomber in combat. At the time, he was the reigning male actor in Hollywood, having recently received the Oscar for Best Actor. But, deep down, Jimmy Stewart wanted to continue the family tradition of military service. The Army tried to divert Stewart to a non-combat role, aided by some string-pulling by his movie studio. But, Stewart pulled some strings of his own and eventually found himself training to fly bombers, despite the fact that he was easily at least ten years older than all of the other trainees. Stewa