B-17 Flying Fortress (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century : Weapons Book No. 40)

by William N. Hess

Book Overview

Although the Fifteenth Air Force was dismissed as minor leaguers by the Eighth Air Force, strategic bombers from this outfit had done a major league job on axis targets in southern Europe following its formation in Italy in 1943. And the heavy bombers employed by the Fifteenth were ofcourse the venerable B-17 and B-24. At its peak strength, the Fifteenth's B-17 force comprised six groups of four squadrons each, all controlled by the 5th Bomb Wing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345239717
• ISBN13: 9780345239716
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Random House
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.