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Mission to Berlin : the American airmen who struck the heart of Hitler's Reich / Robert F. Dorr.

Title
Mission to Berlin : the American airmen who struck the heart of Hitler's Reich / Robert F. Dorr.
Author
Dorr, Robert F.
Publication
Minneapolis,MN : Zenith Pr., 2011.

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Description
328 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Summary
Author Bob Dorr in Mission to Berlin takes the reader on a World War II strategic bombing mission from an airfield in East Anglia, England, to Berlin and back. Told largely in the veterans' own words, Mission to Berlin covers all aspects of a long-range bombing mission including pilots and other aircrew, ground crew, and escort fighters that accompanied the heavy bombers on their perilous mission.
Subject
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American
  • Airmen > United States > Biography
  • Berlin (Germany) > History > Bombardment, 1943-1944
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-316) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Wake-up -- Starting -- Warm-up -- Struggling -- Way up -- Mission to Berlin -- The way in, Part I -- Striving -- The way in, Part II -- B-17 stories, B-24 stories -- Thirty seconds over Berlin -- Squabbling -- The way out -- Mission to Magdeburg -- The way home -- Wheels down -- Wrap-up.
ISBN
  • 9780760338988
  • 0760338981
LCCN
^^2010045976
OCLC
  • 662404974
  • SCSB-12849307
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library