Author: Bowman, Martin W,,
Title: CASTLES IN THE AIR - The story of the B-17 Flying Fortress crews of the US 8th Air Force.
Description: Patrick Stephens, Cambridge, 1984, 1st edn., 209pp, half tone photo pictorial frontis, numerous half tone photo ills. in text, half tone photo pictorial endpapers, large format (9.5 x 8 inches approx.), green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, photo pictorial wrappers, in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor agreements between USA and Great Britain for joint military support against the Axis powers led to the creation of the US 8th Air Force which after training in the USA arrived in Great Briain in mid 1942, their bombing capacity predominantly provided by the B-17 Flying Fortress, each with their crew of eleven they bore the brunt of the daylight strategic bombing offensive against Germany, slightly cocked, edges a little tanned, dustwrapper: nick at head of spine repaired to reverse, a little rubbed at extrems., clipped lower flap, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 8th air force usaaf b-17 flying fortress


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