Target Berlin: Mission 250, 6 March 1944

Jeffrey Ethell and Alfred Price

ISBN 10: 0710600526 / ISBN 13: 9780710600523

Edité par Jane's Publishing Co., London, 1981

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Dust jacket. Account of first US 8th Air Force daylight raid on Berlin but 68 four-engined bombers and 11 escorting fighters failed to return to base. The events as seen through US and German eyes. Plates. 212 pages. Quoted postage for UK 2nd class. Overseas at least £7.75, maybe more.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Target Berlin: Mission 250, 6 March 1944
• Éditeur: Jane's Publishing Co., London
• Date de parution: 1981
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0710600526
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780710600523
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Good

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Présentation de l'éditeur

On March 6th, 1944 the Americans launched their first large-scale daylight raid on Berlin, the capital of Hitler's reich. The price they paid for their audacity was high: sixty-nine heavy bombers and eleven escort fighters failed to return, the highest number in any raid mounted by the 8th Air Force. This account of the mission is a compellingly readable, skillfully researched, minute-by-minute description. It is also the first book on the subject to look at events from the perspective of both sides, drawing on material from over 160 USAAF personnel, Luftwaffe pilots, civilians and German flak gunners. Target Berlin captures the excitement and drama of the operation, bringing to the fore the mounting horror of a mission plagued by misfortune, strong defenses and bad luck. The gripping narrative also sheds light on what it was like to be in Berlin as the bombs began to fall.