Get the file here A B-17 navigator's world War II log book. Please see attachment: Once you start reading this, you can't stop - these guys were amazing! The logbook records the daily activity of a B-17 navigator and his 24 missions flying out of England from September 1943 through February1944. The daily courage and total commitment of these airmen and their British counterparts is beyond comprehension. The 8th AF in England suffered 71% casualty rate for its aviators. Seventy-seven percent of the Americans who flew in combat against the Reich prior to D-day wound up as casualties, and over the course of the war 1 in 10 of the 350,000 Americans who served with the Eighth Air Force were killed flying combat missions. If you add to those deaths battle wounds and those shot down who became POWs, the Eighth Air Force suffered the highest casualty rate of any group in the American armed forces in WWII (and still not counting a very large number of psychiatric ca...