Название: B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the MTO
Автор: William Hess and Mark Styling
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: Osprey Combat Aircraft 38
ISBN: 978 1841765808
Год издания: 2003
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 96
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 3,8 MB
Osprey's study of the B-17 Flying Fortress Units of World War II (1939-1945). Although the Fifteenth Air Force was dismissed as 'minor leaguers' by the Eighth Air Force, strategic bombers from this outfit had done a 'major league' job on Axis targets in southern Europe following its formation in Italy in November 1943. And the heavy bombers employed by the Fifteenth were of course the venerable B-17 and B-24. At its peak strength, the Fifteenth's B-17 force comprised six groups of four squadrons each, all controlled by the 5th Bomb Wing. Having been a part of the Fifteenth Air Force in 1944, author Bill Hess has long been waiting to write a definitive account on 'his air force'.