Dmitri, Ivan
First Edition
This is the story, in vivid text and in magnificent photographs - over 480 of them, with 180 in full color - of one of the most exciting, vital, and least known, of American military branches - Air Transport Command.
Ivan Dmitri, ace photographer for the Saturday Evening Post, spent rnonths flying 32,000 miles of ATC routes with his cameras and equipment, his trained observing eye, and his fresh curiosity. He saw at first hand the dramatic feats and heroic accomplishments of ATC in its urgent work of ferrying bombers, flying men and materiel to combat areas, and establishing bases around the world.
Here, with Dmitri, you travel to South America, to lonely Ascension Island, to the Gold Coast; thence you cross equatorial Africa and Arabia to India, and on over the "hump" - the jagged, 30,000-foot peaks of the Himalayas, made dangerous by shifting air currents and constant threat of enemy attack - into free China.
Then back you fly through Cairo and across the desert to the Libyan base of the IXth Bomber Command. And there you visit thousands of our airmen at the hot, dusty Mediterranean base from which they go out to bomb Axis-held Italy, the Balkans, southern Germany. You fly with them on a mission over enemy targets.
Palermo, just freed by the Seventh Army; Algiers and Tunis; the Atlas range, where you join American GI's as guest of a Moroccan sheik and his five hundred dancing girls; Scotland, Ice-land, Greenland, Labrador - these are your other exciting ports of call.
Here Dmitri tells you the story of his trip, of the bases established along the way, of how they are managed, and chiefly of the work and play of the men at all those outposts of America. It is a story you should read now, for it makes clear and graphic a little-understood phase of our global war. It is a story you will want to remember, for the ATC routes of today may well become the international airways of tomorrow. And Dmitri's photographs alone make the book one you will turn to again and again with constant pleasure.
hardcover, large format
240 Seiten / pages
with over 480 photographs, 180 of them in color
very good condition
New York - London - 1944 - Whittlesey House - McGraw-Hill
Art.Nr. 22712
