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    Hit the Target: Eight Men Who Led the Eighth Air Force to Victory Over the Luftwaffe
    Hit the Target: Eight Men Who Led the Eighth Air Force to Victory Over the Luftwaffe
    Hit the Target: Eight Men Who Led the Eighth Air Force to Victory Over the Luftwaffe
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    Hit the Target: Eight Men Who Led the Eighth Air Force to Victory Over the Luftwaffe

    Written by Bill Yenne

    Narrated by Corey M. Snow

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    Less than a month after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Army formed its first air force designated to operate overseas, the Eighth. Within four months, they had set up base in England. Three months later, they were bombing German targets in occupied Europe. The Eighth was the first bomber command on either side to commit to strategic daylight bombing. It was a major change in tactics-and the men of the Eighth paid the price in both lives and blood. But it was that very sacrifice that led the Allies to victory. Hit the Target introduces readers to those who made the Eighth Air Force the formidable juggernaut it soon became. Men of all ranks, from General Tooey Spaatz, the hard-driving founding commander, to Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, the hero who led the first air raid on Japan, to Maynard "Snuffy" Smith, the irascible first airman in Europe to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, and Robert "Rosie" Rosenthal, who survived his time with the "Bloody Hundredth," which lost airmen at a horrifying rate, and who went on to serve as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials. The story of the Mighty Eighth is told through these men, whose careers paralleled the early history of aviation and who helped to revolutionize airborne warfare and win World War II.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateDec 9, 2016
    ISBN9781501948886
    Hit the Target: Eight Men Who Led the Eighth Air Force to Victory Over the Luftwaffe
    Author

    Bill Yenne

    Bill Yenne is the author of ten novels and more than three dozen non-fiction books, his most recent being America's Few: Marine Aces in the South Pacific (Osprey, 2022). His work has been selected for the Chief of Staff of the Air Force Reading List. He is the recipient of the Air Force Association's Gill Robb Wilson Award for the “most outstanding contribution in the field of arts and letters [as an author] whose works have shaped how thousands of Americans understand and appreciate air power.” He lives in California, USA.

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    • 4/5
      good book on 8th airforce in WW II