Author: Bendiner, Elmer,
Title: THE FALL OF FORTRESSES - A Personal Account of one of the Most Daring - and Deadly - Air Battles of the Second World War.
Description: Souvenir Press, London, 1981, 1st edn. UK, 258pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, the author, who enlisted a few days before Pearl Harbor, served as a navigator on B-17 Flying Fortresses and in August 1913, as part of the 379th Bombardment Group, was part of the first daylight raid on the ball-bearing factories at Schweinfurt, he uses his experiences and those of colleagues and post-war research of archive material from German and US sources to relate the raid, edges tanned, dustwrapper: price clipped, lightly rubbed at tips, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 usaaf b-17 flying fortresse 379th bombardment group kimbolton germany schweinfurt


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