Mighty by Sacrifice : The Destruction of an American Bomber Squadron, August 29, 1944 /

The high cost of the Allied air offensive during World War II. On August 29, 1944, the 15th U.S. Army Air Force unleashed 500 bombers against oil and rail targets throughout central Europe. It dispatched the 20th Squadron of the 2nd Bombardment Group on what they regarded as an easy assignment: atta...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Noles, James L., 1946-
Other Authors: Noles, James L., Jr
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
USA > Bombardment Squadron > 20
United States. > Army Air Forces. > Bombardment Squadron, 20th.
United States. > Army Air Forces. > Bombardment Squadron, 20th > Biography.
Luftangriff
Regimental histories.
Military operations, Aerial > American.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Histoire des unites > États-Unis.
World War, 1939-1945 > Regimental histories > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American.
Mährisch-Ostrau
United States.
Czech Republic > Ostrava.
Ostrava (Czech Republic) > History > Bombardment, 1944.
Biographies.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:The high cost of the Allied air offensive during World War II. On August 29, 1944, the 15th U.S. Army Air Force unleashed 500 bombers against oil and rail targets throughout central Europe. It dispatched the 20th Squadron of the 2nd Bombardment Group on what they regarded as an easy assignment: attack the Privoser Oil Refinery and associated railroad yards at Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. This ""milk run"" deteriorated into the bloodiest day in the 2nd Bombardment Group's history: not a single one of the 20th Squadron's B-17 Flying Fortress bombers returned from the mission. Forty airmen we
Physical Description:1 online resource (287 pages): illustrations, map
ISBN:9780817390174

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