Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer Paperback - 1999
by Brian O'Neill
The bestselling account of the Air Force bomber crew that "broke the back of Nazi Germany" is dramatically updated with new information about the fate of crews shot down and what happened to principals after the war. 98 illustrations.
From the rear cover
In 1943, when the outcome of World War II hung in the balance, B-17 crews of the Eighth Air Force flew harrowing, unescorted daylight bombing missions deep into Occupied Europe and Germany. These devastating raids have long been storied in film and fiction, but here is a firsthand, blow-by-blow account of these perilous missions as they really happened. In these pages, you'll see the events unfold as they were recorded and recalled by one crew's officers and enlisted men (pilot, copilot, navigator, radioman, and gunners), corroborated by other crews they flew with, and painstakingly correlated with the official records of the men's 303rd "Hell's Angels" Bomb Group.
The publication of Half a Wing, Three Engines, and a Prayer in 1989 prompted a flood of fresh recollections, correspondence, and personal records from other veterans of the 303rd. This Special Revised Edition incorporates that wealth of new material into a vivid, thorough recreation -- complete with actual combat photographs -- of one of the most dramatic chapters in military aviation history.
New in this Special Revised Edition:
* New veteran interviews
* Expanded coverage
* Revised data
* 90 photographs & illustrations
* Epilogue: crewmen's post-war careers
"A well-researched, highly readable account of a B-17 combat crew's experience...excellent." -- Roger A. Freeman, author of The Mighty Eighth
"The best collection of stories about a B-17 Bomb Group that has ever been published." -- Harry D. Gobrecht, President, 303rd Bomb Group Association and author of Might in Flight: Daily Diary of the Eighth Air Force's 'Hell's Angels' Bomb Group
Details
- Title Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer
- Author Brian O'Neill
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Pages 454
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher McGraw-Hill Companies, Blacklick, Ohio, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-05-21
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780071341455 / 0071341455
- Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.2 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 3.05 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945 - Germany
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99014339
- Dewey Decimal Code 940.544
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