The Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission
By: Martin Middlebrook.
Edition: U.S. ed.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9780684179834
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.; Schweinfurt (Germany) -- History -- Bombardment, 1943.; Regensburg (Germany) -- History -- Bombardment, 1943.
Other titles: Scribner military library.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 353.
"Scribner military library"--Jacket.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A dream delayed; title: The targets; title: Chain of command; title: Briefings; title: Revised plans; title: The Luftwaffe; title: Going in; title: On their own; title: Over Regensburg; title: Under the bombs; title: The diversions; title: Up at last; title: The dream fades; title: Over Schweinfurt; title: In Schweinfurt; title: The cripples; title: Herr Gott Sakrament!; title: Distant action; title: The reckoning; title: The aftermath; title: Appendixes.; title: American and Allied operational performance; title: Luftwaffe operational performance; title: Regensburg briefing notes; title: The wheels-down B-17 crew; title: A gunner's letter