Brentwood, TN: JM Productions, 1998. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. The format is approximately 6.125 inches by 9.25 inches. 224 pages. Map. Illustrations. Tabular Data. Foreword by Roger A. Freeman Decorative front cover. No dust jacket present. Ex-library with the usual library markings. Front flyleaf has been roughly removed. The group was activated during World War II as the 457th Bombardment Group. It flew Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress from England, entering the strategic bombing campaign during Big Week. It flew 7,086 sorties before returning to the United States for inactivation in the summer of 1945. James L. Bass served as a radio operations and was assigned to the 748th squadron. This is mostly a pictorial work, with introductory and focusing text in each chapter. Fait Accompli II attempts to provide in pictures a sequence of events of the 457th Bomb Group. It also attempts to blend with the old, a series of recent photographs that provided a contract of the scene when published. Fait accompli II is more than a pictorial account of aircraft. It is also an account of individuals who answered the call of their country at a time a need, a time t step forward and respond. It is an account of an organizations composed primarily of citizens who became soldiers in the fight for Freedom. More

Carthage, TN: JLB Publications, 1995. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. The format is approximately 6.125 inches by 9.25 inches. xvi, 408 pages. Map. Illustrations. Tabular Data. Appendix. Index: Names of 457th Members by Mission. Index II. Names by page numbers. Glossary. Decorative front cover. No dust jacket present. Ex-library with the usual library markings. Front flyleaf has been roughly removed. The group was activated during World War II as the 457th Bombardment Group. It flew Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress from England, entering the strategic bombing campaign during Big Week. It flew 7,086 sorties before returning to the United States for inactivation in the summer of 1945. Homer Briggs joined the 457th with the original cadre. He served as an assistant crew chief and mechanic. James L. Bass served as a radio operations and was assigned to the 748th squadron. John F. Welch was assigned to the 748th Squadron and flew both as a co-pilot and crew commander. He was recalled to active during the Korean War in 1951. He retired from the service as a Colonel. More