Author: William McNaught. Published by General Store Publishing House, Burnstown, ON., 1996, 1st Edition. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 9 x 6 inch, 309 pages including index.
THROUGH FOOTLESS HALLS OF AIR, The Stories of a Few of the Many Who Failed to Return, by Floyd Williston, is a meticulously researched story of the short lives of six Atlantic Canada airmen, two of them the author's brothers, who failed to return from aerial operations during the Second World War.
The result is an exciting and moving chronicle of life-and-death struggle:
F/O David Albert Romans, DFC, B-17 Pilot from the Bay, from Glace Bay, Cape Breton, N.S.
F/Sgt. Albert A. Williston,The Steelworker and the Flying German Prince, from Sydney Mines, Cape Breton, N.S.
F/O Earle K. Reid and the Infamous Nuremberg Raid, from Milford Station, N.S
F/O Fred (Miff) Mifflin, DFC, Skipper to a VC Winner, from Catalina, Newfoundland.
S/L Norman Fowlow, DFC, Spitfire Pilot, from Trinity Bay, Newfoundland.
P/O J.C. Jimmie Tuplin, Bomber Command's Last Major Raid of WWII, from New Annan, P.E.I.
