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02401aam a2200349 i 4500 001 958D8ED209DB11EF9809F61335ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240504010017 008 210809t20212001nyuab 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1504067339 020 $a 9781504067331 035 $a (OCoLC)1264401113 040 $d SILO 100 1 $a Crosby, Harry H., $e author. 245 12 $a A wing and a prayer : $b the "Bloody 100th" bomb group of the US Eighth Air Force in action over Europe in World War II / $c Harry H. Crosby. 264 1 $a New York : $b Open Road Integrated Media, $c 2021. 300 $a 336 pages : $b illustrations, map ; $c 22 cm 500 $a Originally published: New York: HarperCollins, 1993. 500 $a Includes index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a 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. 600 10 $a Crosby, Harry H. 610 10 $a United States. $b Air Force, 8th. $b Air Force, 8th. 610 10 $a United States. $b Bomb Group, 100th $b Bomb Group, 100th $x History. 610 10 $a United States. $b Army Air Forces $v Biography. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Aerial operations, American. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $v Personal narratives, American. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Campaigns $z Western Front. 650 0 $a Flight navigators, Military $z United States $v Biography. 941 $a 1 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20240504010040.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=958D8ED209DB11EF9809F61335ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search