B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the Eighth Air Force (part 1)
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- ISBN 9781841760216
- Weight: 420g
- Dimensions: 182 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 25 Mar 2000
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Boeing B-17 has come to epitomise the American war effort in Europe, the huge four-engined heavy day bomber taking the fight to Germany from the late summer of 1942 through to VE-Day.
The primary operator of the Flying Fortress in Western Europe was the 'Mighty Eighth'. This volume, which is the first of two dealing exclusively with the 'Mighty Eighth', covers the 15 Bomb Groups of the First Air Division, each of which controlled four squadrons.
The evolution of the force is traced through first-hand accounts of those individuals that took part in the action.
Norwich-based Martin Bowman has written several volumes on the Mosquito, plus countless works on the USAAF.
Mark Styling is better known to readers of Osprey Publishing's Aircraft of the Aces and Combat Aircraft series as the profile artist for such books as Hellcat Aces of World War 2, Japanese Army Air Force Aces 1937–45 and P–61 Units of World War 2. A full-time commercial artist, Mark works from his home in the East London suburb of Hackney.
