The Wild Blue Yonder and Beyond : The 95th Bomb Group in War and Peace /
The 95th Bomb Group (Heavy), the most highly decorated bomb group of World War II, participated in every major mission of the war from May 1943 through the war's end and won an unprecedented three Presidential Unit Citations (known as the Distinguished Unit Citation before 1966). Flying the cel...
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Washington, D.C. :
Potomac Books,
2012.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- The creation of an Air Force
- Across continents and oceans
- Alconbury and early missions
- Mission day
- Then came Kiel
- The British
- Cold sky
- DNIF: duties not involving flying
- From Kiel to the eve of Regensburg
- Replacement crews
- Wives and mothers
- Sudden death
- Entertainment and London
- Regensburg shuttle mission
- Black week
- POWs, Part I
- Internment in Switzerland and Sweden
- Escape and evasion
- MIA
- Pathfinders and Aphrodites
- Big week
- "Big B"
- D-Day
- The Russia shuttle missions
- Final combat missions
- POWs, Part II
- Manna/Chowhound missions
- Coming home
- The legacy lives on.