WWII USAAF BOMBING MISSION 8th Air Force B-17 Schweinfurt Raid 1943 War Aviation
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.no-subscribe { display: none} [contenteditable] { pointer-events: none; } BLACK THURSDAY by Martin Caidin Published by E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1960. Second printing. Very good hardcover in good dustjacket in archival mylar wrapper. Tight binding, slight spine caner, clean unmarked text light foxing. 8vo, illustrated with photographs, drawings, index, 320 pages. Martin Caidin's "Black Thursday" delivers a gripping, white-knuckled account of one of the most devastating air missions of World War II—the October 14, 1943, daylight bombing raid on the ball bearing factories of Schweinfurt, Germany. Through meticulous research and firsthand interviews with survivors, Caidin reconstructs the harrowing ordeal of the Eighth Air Force's 291 B-17 Flying Fortresses that embarked on this crucial strategic mission, only to meet ferocious resistance from the Luftwaffe that would earn the day its ominous moniker. With a journalist's precision and a novelist's narrative flair, Caidin places readers directly in the cockpits and gun turrets of the vulnerable bombers as they navigate through relentless waves of German fighters and punishing anti-aircraft fire. The tense radio communications, the split-second decisions, the mechanical failures, and the raw courage of aircrews facing near-impossible odds come alive in these pages. Particularly compelling is Caidin's ability to balance the strategic objectives of the mission with intimate portraits of the men who flew it—their fears, their cam
- Publisher: E.P. Dutton & Co.,
- Year: 1960
- Printing: later
- Condition: Very Good
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