TY - BOOK AU - Miller,Donald L. TI - Masters of the air: America's bomber boys who fought the air war against Nazi Germany SN - 1668011867 U1 - 940.54/4973 PY - 2024/// CY - New York PB - Simon & Schuster Paperbacks KW - United States KW - Army Air Forces KW - Air Force, 8th KW - History KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Aerial operations, American KW - Campaigns KW - Western Front KW - Bomber pilots KW - Biography KW - Biographies KW - lcgft KW - rvmgf N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 609-642) and index; Prologue : The bloody Hundredth -- 1. The Bomber Mafia -- 2. Eaker's amateurs -- 3. The dangerous sky -- 4. Airman down! -- 5. The anatomy of courage -- 6. Teach them to kill -- 7. The bells of hell -- 8. Men at war -- 9. The turning -- 10. Liberated skies -- 11. The fatal trap -- 12. Prisoners of the Swiss -- 13. My bellyful of war -- 14. The wire -- 15. Terror without end -- 16. The chimneys hardly ever fall down -- 17. A pageant of misery -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index N2 - A history recounting the events and experiences of the World War II bomber pilots of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, the armed forces group that conducted daytime bombing of Germany in advance of the Allied soldiers' arrival on the ground ER -