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B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the Eighth Air Force (part 2)
By Martin Bowman and Mark Styling
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The Boeing B-17, which has come to epitomise the American war effort in Europe, took the fight to Germans from the late summer of 1942 through to VE-Day. Its primary operator in Western Europe was the 'Mighty Eighth', who controlled 27 bomb groups for much of the war. This second of two volumes covers the 14 Bomb Groups of the Third Air Division. First hand accounts, period photography, profile artworks and nose art scrap views bring to life aircraft from each of the groups within the Third Air Division.
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Martin Bowman
Martin Bowman is the author of sixty aviation books on military subjects. His interest in World War II was fired by the proliferation of US and RAF air bases in his native East Anglia. His quest has taken him to eighteen countries including the USA, Africa, Australia and Russia. He has flown into the world's war zones of Mogadishu, Somalia and Bosnia…and he has even been catapulted from the USS John F Kennedy! Martin has also been appointed as official researcher for DERA.
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