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B-24 Liberator Units of the Fifteenth Air Force

Paperback (96 pages), kindle
The men flying the B-24 Liberators in the 15th Air Force fought ceaselessly right through to V-E Day, with missions over the Ploesti oilfields being some of the deadliest undertaken by the "heavies."

B-24 Liberator Units of the Fifteenth Air Force

The B-24 was heavily utilized in the North African and Mediterranean theaters by the USAAF's Fifteenth Air Force, with operations over the Ploesti oilfields in Romania being some of the most famous missions undertaken by the big American 'heavy' in World War II (1939-1945). The sterling work of the Fifteenth Air Force is often overshadowed by the glamorous "Mighty Eighth," yet the men flying the B-24 fought ceaselessly right through to V-E Day. This is the third of five titles planned to chart the operational history of the Consolidated heavy bomber, and is the first single volume to exclusively cover the Fifteenth Air Force's B-24 units.

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