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Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer by Brian D O’Neill Revised Ed SoftCover
Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer by Brian D O’Neill Revised Ed SoftCover
Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer by Brian D O’Neill Revised Ed SoftCover
Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer by Brian D O’Neill Revised Ed SoftCover
Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer by Brian D O’Neill Revised Ed SoftCover
Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer by Brian D O’Neill Revised Ed SoftCover
Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer by Brian D O’Neill Revised Ed SoftCover
Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer by Brian D O’Neill Revised Ed SoftCover
Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer by Brian D O’Neill Revised Ed SoftCover
Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer by Brian D O’Neill Revised Ed SoftCover
Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer by Brian D O’Neill Revised Ed SoftCover
Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer by Brian D O’Neill Revised Ed SoftCover

Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer by Brian D O’Neill Revised Ed SoftCover


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Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer by Brian D O’Neill Revised Ed SoftCover
 
Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer by Brian D ONeill
Special revised edition
An Aviation Week book
B-17s over Germany
Soft Cover
454 pages
Copyright 1999
CONTENTS
Special Edition Acknowledgmentsxi
Acknowledgmentsxvii
Forewordxxi
Introduction xxiii
1 Huliar's Crew1
2 The ETO13
3 Molesworth and the 303rd Bomb Group19
4 Introduction to Combat  Amiens, August 15, 1943 and Le Bourget, August 16, 1943 29
5 "We're Veterans After That One!"Schweinfurt, August 17, 1943     37
6 "This One Was Going to Be a 'Milk Run   Gilze Rijen, August 19, 1943     51
7 "They Didn't Have a Prayer!"Watten, August 27, 1943    61
8 "By This Time Things Were Really Screwed Up" Amiens, August 31, 1943 67
9 "And I for One Said a Little Prayer"Stuttgart, September 6, 1943 71
10 "A Horrible Fiasco"Nantes, September 16, 1943    95
11 "Don't Let That Happen to You"Emden, October 2, 1943   103
12 "Black Week" BeginsBremen, October 8, 1943    109
13 "We Were All So Scared"Munster, October 10, 1943   115
14 "Schweinfurt Again!"Black Thursday, October 14, 1943     123
15 Schweinfurt PostmortemOctober 15-19, 1943    155
16 "I Could Even See England"Duren, October 20, 1943    159
17 A Week at the "Rest Home"October 22-27, 1943    171
18 "Those Lightnings Were Beautiful That Day"  Wilhelmshaven, November 3, 1943    175
19 The Silence before the Storm     November 4-25, 1943    181
20 The Battle of Bremen Begins November 26, 1943    191
21Star DustBremen, November 26, 1943   199
22 Sawicki's SacrificeBremen, November 29, 1943    207
23 The Battle of Bremen Continued    December 1December 16, 1943 219
24 "Half a Wing, Three Engines, and a Prayer"    Bremen, December 20, 1943   235
25 Jersey Bounce Jr.Bremen, December 20, 1943     255
26 "Rocket Area in France"Vacqueriette, December 24, 1943   273
27 "We Had 10/10 Clouds under Us the Whole Time"Ludwigshafen, December 30, 1943    279
28 Combat Stress The Tour Takes Its Toll    285
29 Duel with a SmokescreenKiel, January 4, 1944    291
30 "The Biggest Ball of Flame I Have Ever Seen"Kiel, January 5, 1944  301
31 Laurels and DisasterOschersleben, January 11, 1944    309
32 Aftermaths of OscherslebenJanuary 11-13, 1944   337
33 Hell's Angels January 14-20, 1944    347
34 "A 'No Ball' Target in France"   Beaulieu, January 21, 1944   351
35 A Mission with Lewis E. Lyle Frankfurt, January 29, 1944   355
36 Fowler's FateFrankfurt, January 29, 1944    365
37 The Last Mission  Bernburg, February 20, 1944  385
38 The Beginnings of Victory"Big Week" and Beyond   395
39 Epilogue403                                                                                                                                                
Old Soldiers Who Don't Fade Away
APPENDIX I421                                                                                                                         
Honor Roll of 303rd Bomb Group (H)                                                                                          
Personnel Killed, Wounded, or Missing in Action During the Hullar Crew's Tour August 12, 1943February 20, 1944
APPENDIX II423                                                                                                                     
Suggestions for Further Reading and Research
Index439
ON THE BACK COVER
In 1943, when the outcome of World War II hung in the balance, B-17 crews of the Eighth Air Force flew harrowing, unescorted daylight bombing missions deep into Occupied Europe and Germany. These devastating raids have long been storied in film and fiction, but here is a firsthand, blow-by-blow account of these perilous missions as they really happened. In these pages, you'll see the events unfold as they were recorded and recalled by one crew's officers and enlisted men (pilot, copilot, navigator, radioman, and gunners), corroborated by other crews they flew with, and painstakingly correlated with the official records of the men's 303rd "Hell's Angels" Bomb Group.
The publication of Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer in 1989 prompted a flood of fresh recollections, correspondence, and personal records from other veterans of the 303rd. This Special Revised Edition incorporates that wealth of new material into a vivid, thorough recreationcomplete with actual combat photographsof one of the most dramatic chapters in military aviation history.
Cover Photo: Cover adapted from a photo of Vicious Virgin, one of the best lead ships of the 303rd Bomb Group's 427th Squadron, as taken in mid-1943 by David P. Shelhamer, one of the pilots in this book who flew her.

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