Hit the Target: Eight Men who Led The Eighth Air Force to Victory over the Luftwaffe

by Bill Yenne

Book Overview

From Bill Yenne, author of the military histories Big Week and Aces High , comes the stirring true story of the Eighth Air Force in World War II. Barely a month after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Army formed its Eighth Air Force, the first bomber command on either side to commit to strategic daylight bombing, with the goal of defeating the Third Reich from the air. The men of the Eighth paid the price in both lives and blood. Hit the Target...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425274187
• ISBN13: 9780425274187
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"