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Wild Blue, The by Stephen E Ambrose Men who flew B-24s 1+944-45 Soft Cover
Wild Blue, The by Stephen E Ambrose
The men and boys who flew the B-24s over Germany 1944 - 1945
Soft Cover
299 pages
Copyright 2001
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments 9
Author's Note17
Prologue 21
Cast of Characters 25
CHAPTER ONE Where They Came From 27
CHAPTER Two Training 49
CHAPTER THREE Learning to Fly the B-24 77
CHAPTER FOUR The Fifteenth Air Force 105
CHAPTER FIVE Cerignola, Italy 127
CHAPTER SIX Learning to Fly in Combat 153
CHAPTER SEVEN December 1944 173
CHAPTER EIGHT The Isle of Capri 199
CHAPTER NINE The Tuskegee Airmen Fly Cover: February 1945 209
CHAPTER TEN Missions over Austria: March 1945 225
CHAPTER ELEVEN Linz: The Last Mission: April 1945 237
Epilogue 253
Notes 265
Bibliography 279
Index 283
ON THE BACK COVER
STEPHEN AMBROSE is the acknowledged dean of the historians of World War II in Europe. In three highly acclaimed, bestselling volumes, he has told the story of the bravery, steadfastness, and ingenuity of the ordinary young men, the citizen soldiers, who fought the enemy to a standstillthe band of brothers who endured together.
The very young men who flew the B-24s over Germany in World War II against terrible odds were yet another exceptional band of .brothers, and, in The Wild Blue, Ambrose recounts their extraordinary brand of heroism, skill, daring, and comradeship with the same vivid detail and affection.With his remarkable gift for bringing alive the action and tension of combat, Ambrose carries us along in the crowded, uncomfortable, and dangerous B-24s as their crews fought to the death through thick black smoke and deadly flak to reach their targets and destroy the German war machine.
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