Flying Forts - The B-17 in World War II
The B-17 Flying Fortess - awsome destructive power and rock-steady reliability - Queen of the Sky to the pilots who flew and loved her
Caidin, Martin
Bantam Air & Space Series 5
This book was first published in 1969
Hundreds and hundreds of long-range heavy bombers streaming overhead in mile-long formations, the deep-throated roar of their engines blending with the screaming howl of hundreds more fighter planes above them - a monstrous, ground-shaking, overwhelming thunder... There has never been a time or a sound like it again, and there never has been an airplane like the B-17 Flying Fortress - among pilots and crews, the most-loved airplane of WW II.
Because if you had to fly and bomb and fight, the Flying Fortress was the rock to have. It flew high and fast, it flew very well, without unexpected vices or tricks that could kill you in combat, and it could absorb battle damage like nothing else in the skies. Time and time again, Forts with massive wounds or great chunks of the aircraft completely missing, with engines dead and dying, limped all the way home.
Softcover
484 Seiten / pages
some illustrations
very good condition
New York - Toronto - London - Sydney - Auckland - 1990 - Bantam Books
Art.Nr. 20690
