Inks, James M., — EIGHT BALED (BAILED) OUT.
Viking, London, ND, paperback, 159pp, map in text, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, in July 1944 the author, Lieutenant James M. Imks, a native of Texas was navigator in a B-24 Liberator based in Spinazzola, Italy with the 776th Bombardment Squadron, USAAF.. His 43rd mission was to bomb the oil refineries of Ploesti in Rumania, which were supplying fuel to the Germans. With their bomb load gone they flew through the flaming wreckage of an explding B-24 hit by a bomb dropped from above, severely damaging their own aircraft. Unable to maintain height they baled out and landed amongst a group of Chetniks in Yugoslavia, in the middle of a five-sided war, slight slant to spine, rubbing to extrems. with surface loss at edges of spine, edges tanned, , good plus,
