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Finish forty and home : the untold World War II story of B-24s in the Pacific /

During the early years of World War II in the Pacific theatre, against overwhelming odds, young American airmen flew the longest and most perilous bombing missions of the war. They faced determined Japanese fighters without fighter escort, relentless anti-aircraft fire with no deviations from target...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scearce, Phil, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press : Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism, ©2011.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Mayborn literary nonfiction series ; no. 5.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction -- Sergeant at seventeen -- Hawaii -- First mission -- Nauru -- Air raid -- Chance -- May 1943 -- The squadron's objectives -- The Pacific preferred -- Softening Tarawa -- Forever consequences -- Losing altitude fast -- Back to Hawaii -- Last flights -- Ask the man who owns one -- The meaning of boxes -- Guam -- Back in business -- Halfway to forty -- January 1945 -- Endings for some -- Epilogue. 
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