Mission 85 - The Us Eighth Air Force''s Battle Over Holland, August 19, 1943

Informationen zum Autor Ivo de Jong, an officer in the Dutch army, has been an international fellow at the U.S. Army War College. He has researched the Eighth Air Force for nearly twenty years and lives in Holland. Klappentext Minute-by-minute chronicle of the U.S. Eighth Air Force's bombing mission against German airfields in Holland. Zusammenfassung On August 19, 1943, two days after the famous Schweinfurt-Regensburg raid, bombers and fighters of the U.S. Eighth Air Force launched attacks against German airfields in Holland – a mission they thought would be easy, a so-called milk run, but it proved to be anything but.

Product details

• Authors: Ivo De Jong, Ivo De Jong
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2013
• EAN: 9780811712019
• ISBN: 978-0-8117-1201-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Stackpole Military History; Stackpole Military History Series; Stackpole Military History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration