Skip Bombing

by James T. Murphy

Book Overview

Murphy was one of a very small number of volunteer pilots who, with their flight crews, started bombing at low altitudes in B-17 flying fortresses in the Southwest Pacific. The aircraft were flown at a 200-foot altitude and at 250 miles per hour at night. One-thousand pound bombs, equipped with four-to-five second fuses, were dropped from the B-17s. On March 3, 1943, the Japanese made a desperate move to re-supply their forces on New Guinea. Twenty-two...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275945405
• ISBN13: 9780275945404
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"