The Cold Blue Sky

A B-17 Gunner in World War Two

by Jack Novey

"Fighters with swastikas closed on us in a steep dive. They went so fast I couldn’t aim my gun. Explosions followed. I saw Schroeder’s plane explode and Kelley’s ball turret fall away from the belly of the plane. Out of seven planes in our squadron, six were gone. It was if a giant hand had swept the sky clean of everyone but us."

Frank Novey’s fresh, frank narrative of his World War Two experiences combines vivid moments of life-and-death aerial combat with touching personal memories of life and love in wartime England. The Cold Blue Sky deserves a place among the best memoirs of the air war against Nazi Germany.