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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-101855329018
ISBN-139781855329010
eBay Product ID (ePID)797455
Product Key Features
Book TitleB-24 Liberator Units of the Eighth Air Force
Number of Pages100 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMilitary Science, Military / World War II, Modern / 20th Century, Military / Aviation
Publication Year1999
IllustratorYes, Rolfe, Mark
GenreTechnology & Engineering, History
AuthorRobert F. Dorr
Book SeriesCombat Aircraft Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.2 in
Item Weight10.2 Oz
Item Length9.9 in
Item Width7.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
Series Volume Number15
Dewey Decimal623.7/463/0973
SynopsisOsprey's examination of the B-24 Liberator Units' participation in World War II (1939-1945). The B-24 Liberator was built in greater numbers than any other US warplane, yet its combat crews live, even today, in the shadow of the less plentiful, but better-known, B-17. Accounts of the 'Mighty Eighth' in Europe, and indeed many of the books and films that emerged from the greatest air campaign in history, often overlook the B-24, even though it was in action for as long as the Flying Fortress, and participated in just as many perilous daylight bombing missions.
My uncle died trying to to land in a German field after flak set his wing afire. I enjoy reading about those times and the young men who flew the Liberators. I think of my 20 year old godfather and miss him.