Author: JABLONSKI, EDWARD
Title: Flying Fortresses: The Illustrated Biography of the B-17s and the Men Who Flew Them
Description: Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co, 1965. Book club edition. B & W photographs; 7 1/2 x 10 1/2"; 362 pages; Hard cover has blue cloth spine with silver lettering. Slight rubbing and bumping to covers. DJ has shelf wear, rubbing scuffing, in a mylar cover. Pages are clean and tight. Exhaustively illustrated with 200+ b/w picture. ' Renowned throughout the world for its strength and destructiveness, the Flying Fortress was one of the greatest fighting airplanes of all time. In this comprehensively documented biography, Edward Jablonski tells the story of the Flying Fortress Boeing B-17, America's legendary long-range bomber. From the B-17's near death in infancy to the emergence of its successor, the Superfortress, Flying Fortress captures the exhilarating career of the B-17 with thrilling accounts of the exploits of these planes and their pilots. In this unforgettable history, Jablonski details the Fortress's role in the strategic and tactical issues of air war, and chronicles the B-17's roles in famous raids including Regensburg, Marienburg, Munster, Schweinfurt, Dresden, and Berlin, along with its part in great battles, such as D-Day....' Bibliography; note; index. Oversized/2.5#.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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