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010702 - RIDGEWELLS FLYING FORTRESSES: The 381st Bomb Group (H) in WWII

 

By Ron MacKay

Operational history of one of the 8th AF’s, B-17 units to include detail listings incorporating missions, losses, etc. Hdbk with jckt, 8.5 x 11”, over 350 b/w & clr photos.

In June 1943 the quiet English countryside around the village of Ridgewell in northwest Essex was transformed by the arrival of the 381st Bomb Group with its B-17 Flying Fortresses. The subsequent battle in the skies over Europe witnessed the 381st, in concert with their fellow-airmen with the “Mighty Eighth”, striking 297 times at Hitler’s ‘Fortress Europe’ and dropping over 22,000 tons of ordnance in the process. The cost to the group was 131 aircraft and over 1200 combat crew missing in action, sustained during the course of a fiercely contested struggle stretching over 1000 days.

 

Format Hardback
Pages 256
Publication Date Back in stock again!
Pictures 350
Width (mm) 210
Height (mm) 280
Dust Jacket Yes
ISBN -
Price £54.99

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