Author: Freeman, Roger A.,
Title: B-17 FORTRESS AT WAR.
Description: Ian Allen, Shepperton - Surrey, 1979, reprint, 192pp, numerous col'd and half tone photo ills. in text, orange cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, oversize (11.5 x 8.5 inches), a history of the Boeing B-17, from the under armed and less reliable earlier types developed from the 299 project to the much more robust and heavily armed later types, type E onwards with the larger fin and the type G with the chin turret, in service with the RAF and the USAAF mainly in the European theatre, Meditarranean and North Africa but with some details from the Far East and the Pacific, with accounts from the aircrews on their performance and reliability as well as some of their missions, faint foxing top edge, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, small chip from laminate at tail of spine, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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