On The Highways of the Skies – The 8TH AIR FORCE IN WORLD WAR II
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Characteristics
| Book cover finish | Hardcover ( rounded spine binding ) |
| Special features | Dust jacket |
| Condition | Used good |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Published date | 2008 |
| Language | English |
| Size | 22.1 x 28.2 x 4.1 cm |
| Author | Marton W. Bowman |
| Editor | A SCHIFFER MILITARY HISTORY BOOK |
Description
The story, in words and pictures—many of them never before seen—of the U.S. 8th Air Force fighter and bomber groups of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Air Divisions from 1942 to 1945. Many first-person stories tell what combat was like in the skies over the ETO (European Theater of Operations) against the Luftwaffe Gruppen of Bf 109s and Fw 190s, and the B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators. Many firsthand accounts detail the frenetic missions that were fraught with flak and fighters as the U.S. Strategic Offensive reached into the deepest parts of the Reich.
Also told are stories from the Luftwaffe Experten who opposed the bomber fleets and the fighter escorts as they sounded the death knell of the Luftwaffe.
Source: Publisher's summary printed on cover