We were eagles. Volume 3, The Eight Air Force at war June 44 to October 44
Bowman, Martin W.2015
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The turning of the tide came when the air war was redirected to bombing communications' targets in Northern France in support of the June D-Day invasion and the eventual break-out from the beachheads. Once the Normandy battle was won, missions were resumed against oil stores, factories, communications and other strategic targets. Often crews nursed their blasted and burning bombers back with flak holes and damage from fighter attacks, with feathered props and dead and wounded on board, but those that survived went out again the next day, the day after and the day after that, until their combat tour of 30 and later 35 missions was completed. A host of rank-and-file air crew members - many of whom became living legends in the annals of air warfare - describe these raids in vivid detail and with clarity and vigour.
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Stroud : Amberley, 2015.
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288 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
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9781445633701 (hbk)
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940.5'44973940.544973
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English
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2075047
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