Book
Forgotten Fifteenth : the daring airmen who crippled Hitler's war machine
Publication Information
Washington, D.C. : Regnery History, 2014.
Physical Description
xiv, 338 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
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.