Mission to Berlin The American Airmen Who Struck the Heart of Hitler's Reich

by Dorr, Robert F.

• ISBN13: 9780760338988
• ISBN10: 0760338981
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-15
• Publisher: Zenith Press

Summary

FromHell Hawks!author Bob Dorr,Mission to Berlintakes the reader on a World War II strategic bombing mission from an airfield in East Anglia, England, to Berlin and back. Told largely in the veteransrs" own words,Mission to Berlincovers all aspects of a long-range bombing mission including pilots and other aircrew, groundcrew, and escort fighters that accompanied the heavy bombers on their perilous mission.

Author Biography

Robert F. Dorr, coauthor of Hell Hawks!, takes the reader on a World War II bombing mission from the airfields of England to Berlin and back.

Table of Contents

Wake Up	p. 1
Starting	p. 21
Warm Up	p. 39
Struggling	p. 55
Way Up	p. 75
Mission to Berlin	p. 93
The way In Part I	p. 113
Striving	p. 121
The Way In Part Ii	p. 131
B 17 Stories B 24 Stories	p. 141
Thirty Seconds over Berlin	p. 159
Squabbling	p. 179
The Way Out	p. 195
Mission to Magdeburg	p. 209
The Way Home	p. 233
Wheels Down	p. 239
Wrap Up	p. 257
Acknowledgments	p. 275
Appendixes
Some Aircraft on the Mission to Berlin February 3, 1945	p. 277
Some Aircraft of the Air Campaign, December 7, 1941 to May 8, 1945	p. 287
The Bomber Stream	p. 293
What Happened to Them?	p. 301
Notes	p. 307
Bibliography	p. 314
Index	p. 317
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