Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1117756 in Books
• Published on: 1999-07-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 308 pages

Review
"The best collection of firsthand battle stories I have read." AIR POWER HISTORY

Synopsis
This true story of the European bomber war is told by the combatants themselves and by the sometimes bemused English villagers who came to love "their Yanks". The book focuses on the 95th Bomb Group (H), the first American unit to strike Berlin in a daylight raid and winner of three Presidential Distinguished Unit citations. Its personal stories chronicle furious air combat, fiery crashes, captures, escapes and friendships forged for life. Caught up in a global war, the men of the legendary 95th found the courage to alter the course of history. Ian Hawkins is the author of "Munster: Bloody Skies Over Europe".

Customer Reviews

A collection of precise accounts of the daylight air war.
I read this book having visited the wartime airfields of Parham and Horham in Suffolk where the 95th. Bomb Group were based.
It helped me and others who borrowed the book to understand more about local wartime events by means of a remarkable collection of personal memories collected from both servicemen and the local community.
The book is not just about the dangerous,freezing high altitude daylight raids to the continent, although they are here too.
It is also a black and white documentary on how East Anglian village life was effected emotionally, commercially and technologically by the war.The story of 'The Man who came for Breakfast', a replacement airman shipped from the U.S. who,having arrived late, was briefed and left on his first fatal mission in the early hours of the following morning is particularly moving.His flying kit is on display at the control tower museum, Framlingham.
I recommend this book.