Mighty Eighth War Diary

This book is a day by day operational record of the largest air striking force ever committed to battle -the United States 8th Air Force - which was based in the United Kingdom during the Second World War.
Cover is given to more than a thousand operations in which the 8th Air Force units participated between June 1942 and May 1945. Numbers of aircraft despatched, units involved, bomb tonnages, claims and losses (both to the enemy and accidents), plus a wealth of other detail are included for each mission. There are also 150 separate narratives of incidents and events, plus detailed appreciations of distinguished combatants. Some 400 illustrations support the text and give a remarkable pictorial record of the Eighth's campaign.
Like the author's "The Mighty Eighth" (one of the most successful aviation histories ever published), Mighty Eighth War Diary sets new standards. Not only does it represent a major research effort in the presentation of operational detail hitherto unavailable in any one source, but the book is probably unique for a war history of such scope in that all action photographs are identified with the day they were taken.
Mighty Eighth War Diary will prove fascinating to all who have an interest in the most famous of all American air forces and its associations with the United Kingdom during its operations against Hitler's war machine. A completely independent work standing on its own as major contribution to the history of the Second World War, it is at the same time a natural companion volume to the Mighty Eighth.


by Roger Freeman
Published by Jane's 1981 1st edition. 508pp profusely illustrated, index. 22x28 near fine including d/j.






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