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.
- Published by
- Minneapolis,MN : Zenith Pr., 2011.
- Author
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Details
- 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
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- 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.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-316) and index.
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain