Name: Mighty by Sacrifice: The Destruction of an American Bomber Squadron, August 29, 1944 (en Inglés)
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Author: Noles, James L.
ISBN: 9780817359898

portada Mighty by Sacrifice: The Destruction of an American Bomber Squadron, August 29, 1944 (en Inglés)

Mighty by Sacrifice: The Destruction of an American Bomber Squadron, August 29, 1944 (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

James L. Noles

Editorial

University Alabama Press

Año

2020

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

288

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.4x15.5x2.3 cm

Peso

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9780817359898

N° edición

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
C. 1939-c. 1945 (época de la segunda guerra mundial)
Fuerzas aéreas y guerra
Segunda guerra mundial

Mighty by Sacrifice: The Destruction of an American Bomber Squadron, August 29, 1944 (en Inglés)

James L. Noles (Autor) · University Alabama Press · Tapa Blanda

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The high cost of the Allied air offensive during World War II. On August 29, 1944, the 15th U.S. Army Air Force unleashed 500 bombers against oil and rail targets throughout central Europe. It dispatched the 20th Squadron of the 2nd Bombardment Group on what they regarded as an easy assignment: attack the Privoser Oil Refinery and associated railroad yards at Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. This "milk run" deteriorated into the bloodiest day in the 2nd Bombardment Group's history: not a single one of the 20th Squadron's B-17 Flying Fortress bombers returned from the mission. Forty airmen were killed, another 46 spent the rest of the war as POWs, and only four, with the aid of the OSS and anti-German partisans, and sympathetic Czech civilians managed to evade capture. The ninety airmen on the mission to Moravska Ostrava provide a remarkable personal window into the Allies' Combined Bomber Offensive at its height during WWII. In a microcosm, their stories encapsulate how the U.S. Army Air Forces built, trained, and employed one of the mightiest war machines ever seen. Their stories also illustrate, however, the terrible cost in lives demanded by that same machine.