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Bomb Group The Eighth Air Force's 381st and the Allied Air Offensive over Europe

Bingley, Paul Peters Mike
Innbundet / 2022 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781612009605
Publisert
2022-09-15
Utgiver
Vendor
Casemate Publishers
Høyde
228 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
336

Forfatter
Bingley, Paul
Peters Mike

Om bidragsyterne

Paul Bingley has worked in the civil aviation industry for over thirty years. He is the current Chairman of the Ridgewell Airfield Commemorative Museum in Essex and regularly delivers talks about the airfield’s history. Paul is acknowledged as being one of the best of the new generation of Eighth Air Force historians. Mike Peters is a retired Army Air Corps officer with more than thirty years of military service. He is now a full-time military historian and Chairman of the International Guild of Battlefield Guides. Mike has published books on the Glider Pilot Regiment

Bomb Group The Eighth Air Force's 381st and the Allied Air Offensive over Europe

Bingley, Paul Peters Mike
Innbundet / 2022 / Engelsk
Bingley, Paul Peters Mike
Innbundet / 2022 / Engelsk
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The authors do a good job using the diaries, interviews, and books written by group members to convey a vivid – sometimes too vivid – picture of war at its most elemental. The human element is portrayed using the actual words of those who participated. Particularly poignant are the stories of rude awakenings of fresh arrivals to the cost of war on their first few missions.

The Journal of the Air Force Historical Foundation

The authors' passion for their subject is obvious in the detailed research and meticulous organization of the book. Extensive use of veteran recollec­tions bring life to the narrative. This book is a fitting tribute to the veterans of the 381st.

WWII History Magazine

Bingley and Peters offer a wonderful accounting of how the 381st contributed to the strategic bombing campaign of the Mighty Eighth.

ARGunners.com 14/12/2022

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I can not recommend this book enough. It is a fitting tribute to all of those who served in the 381st Bomb Group but also all of the personnel who served in the Eighth Air Force bomb groups. If you want to know what it was like to fly in, work on, or support a B-17 this is a book you must read. It is a testament to the subsequent generations that owe their existence to men like those described in this book. And finally, the last sentence of the book really hits home, “...just 25 percent completed their tour.”

Aviation Enthusiast Book Club

I think this is a great memorial to all those men who went to war from what is now a quiet corner of Essex. Definitely one I recommend to you.

Military Model Scene

In an extraordinary achievement of marrying historical research with a smooth writing style, Bomb Group works as an introduction to the Eighth Air Force as well as required reading for the well-versed in the subject. Authors Paul Bingley and Mike Peters have produced a detailed account of the 381st BG, and at the same time overlaid the larger historical context of the United States’ first air force with an offensive mission – an offensive mission unproven in its day. Richly researched and full of personal stories recalling training, the horrors and otherworldly nature of aerial warfare, sweating out missions on the ground and the sense of duty, Bomb Group is a valuable addition to the body of work on Eighth Air Force history. Be forewarned, after reading this book your debt of gratitude to these teenagers and young men of the 381st and the whole of the Eighth Air Force will grow exponentially.

Scott W. Loehr, President & CEO, National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force

In February 1942, a reconnaissance party of United States Army Air Forces officers arrived in England. Firmly wedded to the doctrine of daylight precision bombing, they believed they could help turn the tide of the war in Europe. In the months that followed, they formed the Eighth Air Force - an organization that grew at an astonishing rate. To accommodate it, almost seventy airfields were hastily built across the eastern counties of England.   At the heart of the Eighth Air Force were its bombardment groups, each equipped with scores of heavily armed, four-engine bombers. These Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses and Consolidated B-24 Liberators were soon punching through the enemy's defences to bomb targets vital to its war effort. They were crewed by thousands of young American airmen, most of whom were volunteers.   This book tells the story of just one "Bomb Group" - the 381st, which crossed the Atlantic in May 1943. Arriving at RAF Ridgewell on the Essex-Suffolk border, its airmen quickly found themselves thrown into the hazardous and attritional air battle raging in the skies over Europe. Bomb Group follows the 381st's path from its formation in the Texan desert, to its 297th and final bombing mission deep into the heart of Hitler's Third Reich. It is the remarkable story of one group and the part it played in the strategic bombing campaign of "The Mighty Eighth."
Les mer
An intimate history of a B17 Bomb Group at the heart of the US Eighth Air Force's daylight bombing offensive against Hitler's Germany.
Introduction 1. Swift 2. Bolero 3. Black Ribbons and Oil 4. Forward Together 5. Operation A 6. A Sham 7. The Jinxed Ship 8. Beating the Life 9. Scrub the Sky 10. Snow and Skis 11. Total War 12. Ridgewell's Revenge 13. Trafalgar 14. Big B 15. Work Hard for Doolittle 16. The European Theatre's Stage Door 17. Secrets and Lies 18. Triumphant We Fly 19. Tails and Fins 20. Buzz Bomb Alley 21. Allies and Enemies 22. Leading the Way 23. A Last Farewell 24. Some Sunny Day 25. The Lie of the Land
Les mer
Over half a million USA Air Force personnel were based in Britain at the peak of the war

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The authors do a good job using the diaries, interviews, and books written by group members to convey a vivid – sometimes too vivid – picture of war at its most elemental. The human element is portrayed using the actual words of those who participated. Particularly poignant are the stories of rude awakenings of fresh arrivals to the cost of war on their first few missions.

The Journal of the Air Force Historical Foundation

The authors' passion for their subject is obvious in the detailed research and meticulous organization of the book. Extensive use of veteran recollec­tions bring life to the narrative. This book is a fitting tribute to the veterans of the 381st.

WWII History Magazine

Bingley and Peters offer a wonderful accounting of how the 381st contributed to the strategic bombing campaign of the Mighty Eighth.

ARGunners.com 14/12/2022

Se alle

I can not recommend this book enough. It is a fitting tribute to all of those who served in the 381st Bomb Group but also all of the personnel who served in the Eighth Air Force bomb groups. If you want to know what it was like to fly in, work on, or support a B-17 this is a book you must read. It is a testament to the subsequent generations that owe their existence to men like those described in this book. And finally, the last sentence of the book really hits home, “...just 25 percent completed their tour.”

Aviation Enthusiast Book Club

I think this is a great memorial to all those men who went to war from what is now a quiet corner of Essex. Definitely one I recommend to you.

Military Model Scene

In an extraordinary achievement of marrying historical research with a smooth writing style, Bomb Group works as an introduction to the Eighth Air Force as well as required reading for the well-versed in the subject. Authors Paul Bingley and Mike Peters have produced a detailed account of the 381st BG, and at the same time overlaid the larger historical context of the United States’ first air force with an offensive mission – an offensive mission unproven in its day. Richly researched and full of personal stories recalling training, the horrors and otherworldly nature of aerial warfare, sweating out missions on the ground and the sense of duty, Bomb Group is a valuable addition to the body of work on Eighth Air Force history. Be forewarned, after reading this book your debt of gratitude to these teenagers and young men of the 381st and the whole of the Eighth Air Force will grow exponentially.

Scott W. Loehr, President & CEO, National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force

In February 1942, a reconnaissance party of United States Army Air Forces officers arrived in England. Firmly wedded to the doctrine of daylight precision bombing, they believed they could help turn the tide of the war in Europe. In the months that followed, they formed the Eighth Air Force - an organization that grew at an astonishing rate. To accommodate it, almost seventy airfields were hastily built across the eastern counties of England.   At the heart of the Eighth Air Force were its bombardment groups, each equipped with scores of heavily armed, four-engine bombers. These Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses and Consolidated B-24 Liberators were soon punching through the enemy's defences to bomb targets vital to its war effort. They were crewed by thousands of young American airmen, most of whom were volunteers.   This book tells the story of just one "Bomb Group" - the 381st, which crossed the Atlantic in May 1943. Arriving at RAF Ridgewell on the Essex-Suffolk border, its airmen quickly found themselves thrown into the hazardous and attritional air battle raging in the skies over Europe. Bomb Group follows the 381st's path from its formation in the Texan desert, to its 297th and final bombing mission deep into the heart of Hitler's Third Reich. It is the remarkable story of one group and the part it played in the strategic bombing campaign of "The Mighty Eighth."
Les mer
An intimate history of a B17 Bomb Group at the heart of the US Eighth Air Force's daylight bombing offensive against Hitler's Germany.
Introduction 1. Swift 2. Bolero 3. Black Ribbons and Oil 4. Forward Together 5. Operation A 6. A Sham 7. The Jinxed Ship 8. Beating the Life 9. Scrub the Sky 10. Snow and Skis 11. Total War 12. Ridgewell's Revenge 13. Trafalgar 14. Big B 15. Work Hard for Doolittle 16. The European Theatre's Stage Door 17. Secrets and Lies 18. Triumphant We Fly 19. Tails and Fins 20. Buzz Bomb Alley 21. Allies and Enemies 22. Leading the Way 23. A Last Farewell 24. Some Sunny Day 25. The Lie of the Land
Les mer
Over half a million USA Air Force personnel were based in Britain at the peak of the war

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781612009605
Publisert
2022-09-15
Utgiver
Vendor
Casemate Publishers
Høyde
228 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
336

Forfatter
Bingley, Paul
Peters Mike

Om bidragsyterne

Paul Bingley has worked in the civil aviation industry for over thirty years. He is the current Chairman of the Ridgewell Airfield Commemorative Museum in Essex and regularly delivers talks about the airfield’s history. Paul is acknowledged as being one of the best of the new generation of Eighth Air Force historians. Mike Peters is a retired Army Air Corps officer with more than thirty years of military service. He is now a full-time military historian and Chairman of the International Guild of Battlefield Guides. Mike has published books on the Glider Pilot Regiment

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