B-17 Flying Fortress Of MTO
96 page book.
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and is no longer available.List price: $24.00You pay: $17.29(All prices in U.S. Dollars)Manufacturer: Osprey BooksStock Number: OSP COM38View all products of type "B-17 Fortress" Author: William N Hess
Illustrator: Mark Styling
About this book
Although the Fifteenth Air Force was dismissed as 'minor leaguers' by the Eighth Air Force, strategic bombers from this outfit had done a 'major league' job on Axis targets in southern Europe following its formation in Italy in November 1943. And the heavy bombers employed by the Fifteenth were of course the venerable B-17 and B-24. At its peak strength, the Fifteenth's B-17 force comprised six groups of four squadrons each, all controlled by the 5th Bomb Wing. Having been a part of the Fifteenth Air Force in 1944, author Bill Hess has long been waiting to write a definitive account on 'his air force'.
Paperback; January 2003; 96 pages; ISBN: 9781841765808