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200 14$aThe Mighty Eighth in the second World War$b[electronic resource] /$fby Graham Smith
210   $aNewbury, Berkshire $cCountryside Books$d2001
215   $a1 online resource (376 p.)
225 1 $aAviation History
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-85306-709-1 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references.
327   $aCover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Dedication; Map of Eighth Air Force Airfields; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Mighty Eighth; The Eighth Air Force; The Airfields; The Aircraft; The Airmen; Yankee Doodle Goes To War; Eaker's 'Piddling Little Force'; 'Brought To The Brink Of Disaster'; From 'Black Week' To Beyond; A New Year and a New Commander; Battling to 'Big B'; 'Charged With a Most Solemn Obligation'; Focus Cats, Carpetbaggers, Night Owls...; The Restless Skies; 'When Will It All Be Over? By Christmas?'; Upwards And Onwards To Victory
327   $aThe Legacy of The EighthBack Matter; Appendix A; Appendix B; Select Bibliography; Also Available
330   $aIn May 1942, five months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the first aircraft and crews of the newly-formed Eighth US Army Air Force arrived in England. Over the next two years their numbers swelled to a massive and powerful force of bombers and fighters described by one USAAF General as 'the greatest striking force the world has ever known'. They occuped no less than 67 airfields in East Anglia, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Oxfordshire and Hertfordshire, and added a huge...
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606   $aWorld War, 1939-1945
615  0$aWorld War, 1939-1945.
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