B-24 Liberator Units of the Eighth Air Force (Osprey Combat Aircraft 15)
Contributors: Mark Rolfe (Illustrator)
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: October 15, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781855329010
Subjects: Air forces & warfare; European history: Second World War; Second World War, 1939-1945; History: American; History; History - Military / War; Europe; USA; Military - Aviation; Military - World War II; History / Military / Aviation
First sentence: When it was all over, and there was no going back to change any part of what had happened, Americans who fought over the continent in the Liberator wondered how in God's name they had endured the sub-zero cold, flak, fighters and the fickle cruelties of modern industrial warfare which gave the average crewman, according to one official estimate, only a 70-30 chance of coming out alive.