COM018: B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the Eighth Air Force (part 1)

Author
Martin Bowman

Author
Mark Styling

About this book
The Boeing B-17 has come to epitomise the American war effort in Europe, the huge four-engined heavy day bomber taking the fight to Germany from the late summer of 1942 through to VE-Day. The primary operator of the Flying Fortress in Western Europe was the 'Mighty Eighth'. This volume, which is the first of two dealing exclusively with the 'Mighty Eighth', covers the 15 Bomb Groups of the First Air Division, each of which controlled four squadrons. The evolution of the force is traced through first-hand accounts of those individuals that took part in the action.

Contents

• Yankee Doodle Goes To War
• Spreading the Wealth
• 'Black Thursday' and beyond
• 'Big Week' and 'Big B
• Final Victory
• Appendices

Paperback; March 2000; 116 pages; ISBN: 9781841760216