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In 1943, nineteen-year-old Jim Yoder is serving in the United States Army Air Corps as a waist gunner flying on a B-24 high above the battlefield. The only thing he misses is the pretty Margo Lace, back home in Elkhart, Indiana. Jim believes he is the master of his fate--until through a series of events he ends up alone, on foot, and on the run across Hitler's Europe. As Jim tries to stay one step ahead of his pursuers to reach Allied soil, he discovers that to survive he will have to trust the God he once rejected. This Christian fiction book is full of excitement, danger, and realistic details about World War II Europe.

World War II is the setting for Gunner’s Run, a historical fiction novel for teens by Rick Barry. Nineteen-year-old Jim Yoder is an ocean away from his childhood home in Elkhart, Indiana, and his pretty friend, Margo Lace. He is serving in the United States Air Corps as a waist gunner flying on a B-24 high above the battlefield. Through a strange chain of events, Jim finds himself back on the ground and trapped behind enemy lines. As Jim is running across Nazi Germany to reach the safety of Allied soil, he discovers that to survive he will have to trust the God he once rejected. This Christian fiction book is full of excitement, danger, and realistic details about World War II Europe.