The Mighty Eighth in WWII: A Memoir

by J. Kemp McLaughlin

Book Overview

On an early morning in the fall of 1942, Kemp McLaughlin's group set out for a raid on a French target. Immediately after dropping its bombs, McLaughlin's plane was hit. A huge fire burned a four-foot hole in his wing, his waist gunner bailed out, his radio operator was wounded, the plane lost all oxygen, and his pilot put on a parachute and sat on the escape hatch, waiting for the plane to explode. And this was only McLaughlin's first sortie. McLaughlin...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813191599
• ISBN13: 9780813191591
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 7.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher