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Accueil de la librairie aéronautique / Aviation militaire - Seconde Guerre mondiale / Aviation Militaire US / BOMBING EUROPE - ILL. EXPLOITS OF 15TH AF
Get the complete story of one of the most ambitious aerial campaigns in history--the bombing of Europe under the Axis powers--illustrated with over 200 compelling photos.
Created in November 1943, the Fifteenth Air Force was the direct descendant of the American Ninth and Twelfth Air Forces that had fought in the Mediterranean since the summer of 1942. Its force included 210 B-17 Flying Fortress and 90 B-24 Liberator bombers escorted by P-38 Lightning, P-47 Thunderbolt, and P-51 Mustang fighters. They took the air battle against the Axis to areas Allied bombers based in England could not reach: southern Germany, Austria, eastern Europe, and the Balkans. Their reach in the Balkans included the oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania, vital to Germany's war effort. Its crews fought the weather, as well as the enemy, by flying over the Alps to reach many of their targets and made a significant contribution to the victory over the Axis powers and Nazi Germany.
Although enemy fighter planes were a major menace during the first nine months of the Fifteenth's air war, ubiquitous antiaircraft fire, called flak, also took a toll on American bombers throughout the campaign. This book tells the story of the brave airmen who bombed the majority of Europe in an effort to win the war.
Delai:3 semaines ETA073 B-17 MISSSIONS DE COMBAT Chasseurs, flak et forteresses volantes : témoignages uniques des missions de la ...
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Delai:3 semaines ETA080 B-24 MISSIONS DE COMBATTémoignages d'équipages de Liberator au-dessus de l'Europe occupéeMartin W....
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. PHI749 CROATIAN ACES OF WORDL WAR 2 Dragan SAVIC & Boris CIGLIC 2002, 96 pages, format 18 x 25, photos NB, profils couleur, ...
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Delai:3 semaines OSP917 THE POINTBLANK DIRECTIVE Three Generals and the untold Story of the daring plan tha saved D-Day L....
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Delai:3 semaines GBS829 J2M RAIDEN AND N1K1/2 SHIDEN / SHIDEN KAI ACES Aircraft of the Aces n°129 Yasuho IZAWA avec Tony HOLMES 2016, 96 pages, ...
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Delai:3 semaines MBI011 AVIA B-35, B-135 Miroslav BILY, Dénes BERNAD et Pavel KUCERA 2003, 88 pages, format 21 x 29, photos et documents NB, ...
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