Half A Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer; B-17s over Germany
New York, N.Y. McGraw-Hill Company, 1999. Special Revised Edition [stated], First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xxiv, 454, [2] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Slightly cocked. Some top edge wear/rippling. Includes Special Edition Acknowledgments, Acknowledgments, Foreword, and Introduction. This special revised edition includes New Veteran Interviews, Expanded coverage, Revised data, 90 new photos & illustrations, and an Epilogue:Topics covered include Hullar's Crew; The ETO; Molesworth and the 303rd Bomb Group; Introduction to Combat, Amiens, August 15, 1943 and Le Bourget, August 16, 1943; "We're Veterans After That One!", Schweinfurt, August 17, 1943; "This One Was Going to Be a "Milk Run", Gilze Rijen, August 19, 1943; "They Didn't Have a Prayer!", Watten, August 27, 1943; "By This Time Things Were Really Screwed Up", Amiens, August 31, 1943; "And I for One Said a Little Prayer", Stuttgart, September 6, 1943; "A Horrible Fiasco", Nantes, September 16, 1943; "Don't Let That Happen to You", Emden, October 2, 1943; "Black Week" Begins, Bremen, October 8, 1943; "We Were All So Scared", Munster, October 10, 1943; "Schweinfurt Again!", Black Thursday, October 14, 1943; "I Could Even See England", Duren, October 20, 1943; A Week at the "Rest Home", October 22- 27, 1943; "Those Lightings Were Beautiful That Day", Wilhelmshaven, November 3, 1943; The Silence before the Storm, November 4-25, 1943; The Battle of Bremen Begins, November 26, 1943; Star Dust, Bremen, November 26, 1943; Sawicki's Sacrifice, Bremen, November 29 1943. Includes suggestions for further reading and an Index. Crewmen's post-war careers. A well-researched, highly readable account of a B-17 combat crew's experience. In 1943, when the outcome of World War II hung in the balance, B-17 crews of the Eighth Air Force flew harrowing, unescorted daylight bombing missions deep into Occupied Europe and Germany. These devastating raids have long been storied in film and fiction, but here is a firsthand, blow-by-blow account of these perilous missions as they really happened. In these pages, you'll see the events unfold as they were recorded and recalled by one crew's officers and enlisted men (pilot, copilot, navigator, radioman, and gunners), corroborated by other crews they flew with, and painstakingly correlated with the official records of the men's 303rd "Hell's Angels" Bomb Group.
The publication of Half a Wing, Three Engines, and a Prayer in 1989 prompted a flood of fresh recollections, correspondence, and personal records from other veterans of the 303rd. This Special Revised Edition incorporates that wealth of new material into a vivid, thorough recreation -- complete with actual combat photographs -- of one of the most dramatic chapters in military aviation history.
New in this Special Revised Edition:
* New veteran interviews
* Expanded coverage
* Revised data
* 90 photographs & illustrations
* Epilogue: crewmen's post-war careers. Condition: Good.
Keywords: B-17s, Aerial Combat, 303rd Bomb Group, Schweinfurt, Black Week, Battle for Bremen, Sawicki, Combat Stress, Oschersleben, Lewis Lyle, Molesworth, Elmer Brown, Don Gamble, Robert Hullar, George Hoyt, Wilbur Klint, William McSween, Merlin Miller, Shelh
ISBN: 0071341455
[Book #81747]
Price: $37.50