Bloody skies : a 15th AAF B-17 combat crew : how they lived and died
by Melvin W. McGuire; Robert Hadley
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 1881325067
- ISBN 13
- 9781881325062
- Seller
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About This Item
Las Cruces, NM: Yucca Tree Press, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/fine. A fine first edition, first printing (as stated). In a fine dust jacket. xxi, 424 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, photographs ; Octavo. Little has been written about the contributions of enlisted combat aircrew members during World War II. Also, the importance of crew unity has not been sufficiently emphasized. BLOODY SKIES is the story of a Fifteenth Air Force B-17 crew that often flew the notorious Old Flak Holes & how they learned to respect & trust each other. Training made them cohesive; crisis & tragedy bonded them. They arrived at Amendola, Italy on the day their entire squadron, the Twentieth, had been wiped out by the Luftwaffe. That was their introduction to war. Ten enthusiastic, bright-eyed, cocky boys experience a fatigue & weariness so overpowering it seems to go deep into the bones. It is only their pride in themselves, their crew & their country that keeps them returning to the skies to face another day of that dreaded flak & German fighters. In spite of the horrors of aerial combat, they can still find humor in their lives & compassion for those innocent victims of every war--the children. These ten men, from the economic, cultural & geographic spectrum of 1940s America, represented the best their country could offer." --worldcat
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- Bookseller
- Uncommon Works (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1348
- Title
- Bloody skies : a 15th AAF B-17 combat crew : how they lived and died
- Author
- Melvin W. McGuire; Robert Hadley
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1881325067
- ISBN 13
- 9781881325062
- Publisher
- Yucca Tree Press
- Place of Publication
- Las Cruces, NM
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- personal narratives, World war II
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military History;
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