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Title Forgotten Fifteenth : the daring airmen who crippled Hitler's war machine / Barrett Tillman.
Author Tillman, Barrett.
Publication Info. Washington, DC : Regnery History, [2014]
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Fourth Floor  940.5449 TIL    Check Shelves
Description xiv, 338 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-314) and index.
Contents Up from the desert: November 1943-January 1944 -- The winter war: January-March 1944 -- Italian spring: March-June 1944 -- East to Ploesti: April-June 1944 -- Mediterranean summer: July-September 1944 -- Other players: 1944-1945 -- Air supremacy: September-December 1944 -- Mission accomplished: January-May 1945 -- Legacy: May 1945 and beyond.
Summary The story of the U.S. Army's Fifteenth Air Force who waged an unprecedentedly dogged and violent campaign against Hitler's vital oil production and industrial plants on the Third Reich's southern flank, a campaign that contributed to the end of the most destructive war in history.
Subject United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 15th.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Mediterranean Region.
Added Title Forgotten 15th : the daring airmen who crippled Hitler's war machine
Forgotten Fifteen : the daring airmen who crippled Hitler's war machine
Forgotten 15 : the daring airmen who crippled Hitler's war machine
ISBN 9781621572084 (hbk.) : $29.99
1621572080 (hbk.)