Valor, Guts, And Luck

During the Second World War, a B-17 tailgunner's odds of surviving the 25 missions necessary before he could return home was 26 percent. Facing this lamentable one-in-four survival probability, Staff Sergeant Lowell “Slats” Slayton beat the odds. In Valor, Guts, and Luck, William L. Smallwood shares Slats' dramatic experience.