The Mighty Eighth
Subtitle: The Air War in Europe as Told by the Men Who Fought It
Publisher: Dell
Published: October 13, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780440226482
First sentence: WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR hours after the first bombs from carrier-based Japanese airplanes exploded at Pearl Harbor, the United States entered a world-wide war in which the flying machine, largely a bit player previously, assumed an ever larger role.