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082 _a940.54/4973
092 _ageneral nonfiction
_b940.54 Miller, Donald L.
100 1 _aMiller, Donald L.,
_d1944-
_eauthor.
_96234392
245 1 0 _aMasters of the air :
_bAmerica's bomber boys who fought the air war against Nazi Germany /
_cDonald L. Miller.
250 _aSimon & Schuster trade paperback edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bSimon & Schuster Paperbacks,
_c2024.
264 4 _c©2006.
300 _a671 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c24 cm.
336 _atext
336 _astill image
337 _aunmediated
338 _avolume
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 609-642) and index.
505 0 _aPrologue : 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.
520 _aA 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.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bArmy Air Forces.
_bAir Force, 8th
_xHistory.
_96561924
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xAerial operations, American.
_9101930
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xCampaigns
_zWestern Front.
_994249
650 0 _aBomber pilots
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
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655 7 _aBiographies.
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655 7 _aBiographies.
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