Masters of the air : America's bomber boys who fought the air war against Nazi Germany / Donald L. Miller.
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TextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2024Copyright date: ©2006Edition: Simon & Schuster trade paperback editionDescription: 671 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: - text
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- 1668011867
- 9781668011867
- 940.54/4973
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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.
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.