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The Reluctant Raiders: The Story of United States Navy Bombing Squadron Vb/Vpb-109 in World War II
by Alan C. Carey
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0764307576
- ISBN 13
- 9780764307577
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About This Item
Schiffer Publishing, 1999. Hardcover. New/New. New tightly bound hardcover in new dust jacket. 8vo. (6.25 x 1 x 9.25 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. includes appendices [13], bibliography, and B&W photographs. 240 pp.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The Reluctant Raiders is perhaps the most documented and researched book on a United States Navy land-based squadron flying the PB4Y-1 Liberator and PB4Y-2 Privateer. The final result of five years of research, the book traces the squadron's history from its commissioning in August 1943, to the final days of World War II, including: never before published combat and nose art photography; the squadron's tactical organization; a chronology of each combat aircrew's mission record; personnel killed in action; and an appendix containing Japanese shipping and aircraft destroyed or damaged by the squadron.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The Reluctant Raiders is perhaps the most documented and researched book on a United States Navy land-based squadron flying the PB4Y-1 Liberator and PB4Y-2 Privateer. The final result of five years of research, the book traces the squadron's history from its commissioning in August 1943, to the final days of World War II, including: never before published combat and nose art photography; the squadron's tactical organization; a chronology of each combat aircrew's mission record; personnel killed in action; and an appendix containing Japanese shipping and aircraft destroyed or damaged by the squadron.
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- Title
- The Reluctant Raiders: The Story of United States Navy Bombing Squadron Vb/Vpb-109 in World War II
- Author
- Alan C. Carey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0764307576
- ISBN 13
- 9780764307577
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Atglen, Pennsylvania, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- US navy, Naval history, Bombing squadron, Vb/Vpb-109, WWII, World War II, PB4Y-1 Liberator, PB4Y-2 Privateer, Aviation, Bomber pilots, Nose art, Mission records, Airmen, Planes, Aircrew, Wartime,
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