B-17 Flying Fortress (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century : Weapons Book No. 40)

by William N. Hess

Although the Fifteenth Air Force was dismissed as minor leaguers by the Eighth Air Force, strategic bombers from this outfit had done a major league job on axis targets in southern Europe following its formation in Italy in 1943. And the heavy bombers employed by the Fifteenth were ofcourse the venerable B-17 and B-24. At its peak strength, the Fifteenth's B-17 force comprised six groups of four squadrons each, all controlled by the 5th Bomb Wing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345239717
• ISBN13: 9780345239716
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.