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Young and innocent, they came to a place they had barely heard of, prepared for war. They were American fighter pilots, assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges during the Korean War. Trained but frightened, facing an an enemy they couldn't understand, and waging a war they had to win.

On an early morning in October 1944, two Allied airmen and six members of the Dutch underground were executed in a village in Nazi-occupied Holland. Later that morning their bodies were dropped on various street corners in the village with a note "Terrorist " on their chests. The airmen had been captured in the house of the boy who would later become the brother-in-law of John Meurs, the author of this book. The boy could escape but his mother was...

Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a twenty-one-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. It was their first mission. Suddenly, a sleek, dark shape pulled up on the bomber's tail - a German Messerschmitt fighter. Worse, the German pilot was an ace, a man able to destroy the American bomber with the squeeze of a trigger. What happened next would defy imagination...

Describes the design of various types of bombers, their uses in combat, and their role in the future.

Presented are some of America's best war films that feature a comprehensive set on the Army Air Forces in WWII. These are the original films as they were shot and feature real war footage documentaries that have been preserved by the National Archives of the United States.

"During the height of the Blitz in London, the air raid rescue squad operating out of Mrs. Lucy's house is close-knit and ever-watchful. When a new volunteer named Jack shows up, his odd behavior - not eating, disappearing during the day for a mysterious job - isn't concerning at first. The sleepless stress of the job is hard on everyone. Soon, Jack is in high demand, due to an almost uncanny talent for finding buried people still alive under the...

On April 21, 1945, the twelve-member crew of the Black Cat set off on one of the last air missions if the European theatre of WWII. Ten never came back. This is the story of that crew- where they came from, how they trained, what it was like to fly

Filled with eyewitness descriptions of what the air war was really like, this is a lavishly illustrated book that all history, aviation, and World War II buffs will crave. Photos & color illustrations throughout.