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Genre/Form: | Biographies History Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Ambrose, Stephen E. Wild blue. New York : Simon & Schuster, ©2001 (OCoLC)606588870 |
Named Person: | George S McGovern; George S McGovern; George S McGovern; George S McGovern; George S McGovern |
Material Type: | Biography, Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Computer File, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Stephen E Ambrose |
ISBN: | 0743203399 9780743203395 9780743223096 0743223098 |
OCLC Number: | 46419848 |
Description: | 299 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Where they came from -- Training -- Learning to fly the B-24 -- The Fifteenth Air Force -- Cerignola, Italy -- Learning to fly in combat -- December 1944 -- The Isle of Capri -- The Tuskegee Airmen fly cover: February 1945 -- Missions over Austria: March 1945 -- Linz: The last mission: April 1945. |
Responsibility: | Stephen E. Ambrose. |
More information: |
Abstract:
This title describes how the United States Air Force recruited, trained and then chose the few who would undertake the most demanding and dangerous jobs in WWII. These were the boys turned pilots, bombardiers, navigators and gunners of the B24s, who suffered 50 per cent casualties.
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