The Bridgebusters
Subtitle: The True Story of the Catch-22 Bomb Wing
Publisher: Regnery History
Published: May 09, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781621574880
Description: "The men of the 57th Bomb Wing flew out of Corsica during World War II and bombed vital bridges throughout Italy to sabotage German supply routes. Their missions were dangerous and never-ending. One bombardier in the wing was a young New Yorker named Joseph Heller, who would later turn his experience into the classic 1961 war novel Catch-22. Now aviation historian Thomas McKelvey Cleaver takes a closer look at the real-life men of the 57th, whose camaraderie in the face of death inspired the raucous cast of heroes and antiheros in Catch-22."--
Notes: Source title: The Bridgebusters: The True Story of the Catch-22 Bomb Wing