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Air Apaches, the true story of the 345th Bomb Group and its low, fast, and deadly missions in World War II, Jay A. Stout

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Air Apaches, the true story of the 345th Bomb Group and its low, fast, and deadly missions in World War II, Jay A. Stout

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Air Apaches

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Jay A. Stout

Sub title

the true story of the 345th Bomb Group and its low, fast, and deadly missions in World War II

Summary

Historian and aviator Jay Stout follows up his spellbinding account of the U.S. 303rd Bomb Group-Hell's Angels-with the equally remarkable story of the Air Apaches in the Pacific. Air Apaches reconstructs the war of the 345th Bomb Group in impressively painstaking detail, capturing what it was like to be one of the young men flying low-level bombing and strafing missions and-if the missions weren't dangerous enough-facing such challenges as kamikaze attacks and, if a pilot was shot down, primitive jungle conditions and a sword-brandishing enemy who did not treat downed airmen by the letter of the Geneva Convention. Air Apaches is more than the story of one unit in aerial combat in World War II. It is the story of men at war across all of history

Target audience

adult

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