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Eighth Air Force: The American Bomber Crews in Britain
Eighth Air Force The American Bomber Crews in Britain Author:Donald L Miller Eighth Air Force received glowing reviews in hardback alongside Patrick Bishop's Bomber Boys. It reprinted quickly, and has sold steadily in hardback. — The Bomber War in World War II was waged by two forces: the Lancasters and Halifaxes of the RAF's Bomber Command, and the Flying fortresses and Liberators of the American Eighth Air Force. Thousa... more »nds of young Americans flew hundreds of raids over Germany, bombing by day in huge formations, attacking industrial plants, oil refineries and cities, in desperately dangerous missions from which the numbers who never returned was appallingly high. But between Pearl Harbor and the Normandy landings the bomber war was the only way the Allies could take the way directly to Germany in Europe, making every town and factory the frontline.
Donald Miller's history covers the individual destinies, the notorious raids like Schweinfurt-Regensburg and Dresden, the social transformation of sleepy East Anglian villages by an influx of hundreds of good-time young Yanks, the POW camps in which many of them ended up, and the endless controversy about the ethics of area and terror bombing. Donald Miller is John Henry McCracken Professor of History at Lafayette Colle in Pennsylvania. « less