Originally published: New York: HarperCollins, 1993. Includes index.
Contents:
Practice mission to the Orkneys -- Trondheim -- Thorpe Abbotts -- Flying with Brady -- Curtis LeMay in action -- "Home by Christmas" -- The screw-up -- North Africa via Regensburg -- New job: squadron navigator -- Bremen: last mission with Blakely -- Marienburg and Munster -- The mission to nowhere -- New job: group navigator -- Going native -- Learning about Americans from the British -- John Bennett as group commander -- Hard life at Thorpe Abbotts -- D-Day -- The tactical and strategic war -- The Russia shuttle -- With Landra in London -- R&R with Jean -- Rosie -- London junket -- Last mission -- General Spaatz in Paris -- Operation Manna-Chowhound -- Epilogue.
Summary:
They began operations out of England in the spring of '43. They flew their Flying Fortresses almost daily against strategic targets in Europe in the name of freedom. Their astonishing courage and appalling losses earned them the name that resounds in the annals of aerial warfare and made the "Bloody Hundredth" a legend.
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