New PDF release: With Wings As Eagles: The Eighth Air Force in World War II

By Philip Kaplan

ISBN-10: 1510705104

ISBN-13: 9781510705104

Beginning in 1942, the 8th Air strength all started a precision bombing raid offensive deep into Nazi Germany, embarking from bases in rural England. approximately 350,000 americans have been transplanted to English soil, becoming a member of their British colleagues for this joint Allied offensive. for lots of it used to be a interval of serious threat, and arguably the best event in their lives.

With Wings As Eagles celebrates the heroics of those pilots and their missions. A lavishly illustrated, full-color, hardcover unique, the narrative is the results of the author’s specific interviews with some of the pilots and staff, in addition to study from modern diaries, journals, and scrapbooks. Readers relive the nostalgia and bright recollections — of days of probably unending boredom and fatigue, the loneliness of hovering in an aluminum cocoon 4 miles over an meant goal, and a shocking account of parachuting onto German soil and being captured via ladies and children.

With Wings As Eagles relives the drama and background of an heroic era.

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