Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer: B-17s over Germany Paperback - 1999
by O'Neill, Brian
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- Paperback
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.
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- Title Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer: B-17s over Germany
- Author O'Neill, Brian
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 454
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher McGraw-Hill Education, Blacklick, Ohio, U.S.A.
- Date 1999
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0071341455I3N10
- 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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From the rear cover
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