Author: Middlebrook, Martin,
Title: THE SCHWEINFURT-REGENSBURG MISSION - American Raids on 17 August 1943.
Description: Penguin, Harmondsworth, ND (circa 1987), reprint, trade paperback, 363pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps and diagrams in text, [iii] ads., pictorial montage wrappers, a detailed account of the USAAF 8th Air Force operation against the Messerschmitt factory at Regensburg and the ball-bearing factories at Schweinfurt on 17 August 1943, two targets being chosen in an effort to split the defensive fighter forces but it was to prove the worst defeat suffered by USAAF in Europe as 60 out of as total force of 376 B-17 Flying Forrtresses were lost, lightly rubbed at tips, large publisher's price label lower wrapper, very good plus,

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