Finish Forty and Home - The Untold World War II Story of B-24s in the Pacific

Informationen zum Autor PHIL SCEARCE is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a 2009 graduate of the Middle Tennessee State University Writer's Loft Program. He is a member of the Tennessee Writer's Alliance. Phil resides in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. COLONEL JESSE E. STAY commanded the 42nd Squadron in the Pacific. Klappentext A Main Selection of the Military/History Book Club. This is the true story of the men and missions of the 11th Bombardment Group as it fought alone and unheralded in the South Central Pacific in World War II. They flew the longest and most perilous bombing missions of the war, faced determined Japanese fighters without fighter escort, against relentless anti-aircraft fire, and over thousands of miles of water with no alternative landing sites. Zusammenfassung A Main Selection of the Military/History Book Club. This is the true story of the men and missions of the 11th Bombardment Group as it fought alone and unheralded in the South Central Pacific in World War II. They flew the longest and most perilous bombing missions of the war! faced determined Japanese fighters without fighter escort! against relentless anti-aircraft fire! and over thousands of miles of water with no alternative landing sites.

Product details

• Authors: Phil Scearce
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.12.2012
• EAN: 9781574415100
• ISBN: 978-1-57441-510-0
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Mayborn Literary Nonfiction; Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Series; Mayborn Literary Nonfiction; Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book