<p><b>Joe Pappalardo''s <i>Inferno</i> tells the true story of the men who flew the deadliest missions of World War II, and an unlikely hero who received the Medal of Honor in the midst of the bloodiest military campaign in aviation history.</b><br><br>There¿s no higher accolade in the U.S. military than the Medal of Honor, and 472 people received it for their action during World War II. But only one was demoted right after: Maynard Harrison Smith.<br><br>Smith is one of the most unlikely heroes of the war, where he served in B-17s during the early days of the bombing of France and Germany from England. From his juvenile delinquent past in Michigan, through the war and during the decades after, Smith¿s life seemed to be a series of very public missteps. The other airmen took to calling the 5-foot, 5-inch airman ¿Snuffy¿ after an unappealing movie character.<br><br>This is also the man who, on a tragically mishandled mission over France on May 1, 1943, single-handedly saved the crewmen
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