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Description
In
1943, when the outcome of World War II hung in the
balance, B-17 crews of the Eighth Air Force flew
harrowing, unescorted daylight bombing missions deep
into Occupied Europe and Germany. These devastating
raids have long been storied in film and fiction,
but here is a firsthand, blow-by-blow account of
these perilous missions as they really happened. In
these pages, you'll see the events unfold as they
were recorded and recalled by one crew's officers
and enlisted men (pilot, copilot, navigator,
radioman, and gunners), corroborated by other crews
they flew with, and painstakingly correlated with
the official records of the men's 303rd "Hell's
Angels" Bomb Group.
The publication of Half a Wing,
Three Engines, and a Prayer in 1989 prompted a
flood of fresh recollections, correspondence, and
personal records from other veterans of the 303rd.
This Special Revised Edition incorporates that
wealth of new material into a vivid, thorough
recreation -- complete with actual combat
photographs -- of one of the most dramatic chapters
in military aviation history.
New in this Special Revised Edition:
* New veteran interviews
* Expanded coverage
* Revised data
* 90 photographs & illustrations
* Epilogue: crewmen's post-war careers
"A well-researched, highly readable account of
a B-17 combat crew's experience...excellent." --
Roger A. Freeman, author of The Mighty Eighth
"The best collection of stories about a B-17
Bomb Group that has ever been published." --
Harry D. Gobrecht, President, 303rd Bomb Group
Association and author of Might in Flight: Daily
Diary of the Eighth Air Force's 'Hell's Angels' Bomb
Group
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