Название: Ridgewell's Flying Fortresses: The 381st Bombardment Group (H) in World War II
Автор: Ron MacKay
Издательство: Schiffer Publishing
Серия: Schiffer Military History
ISBN: 0764310631
Год издания: 2000
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 255
Формат: PDF
Размер: 152,6 MB

In June 1943 the quiet English countryside around the village of Ridgewell in northwest Essex was transformed by the arrival of the 381st Bomb Group with its B-17 Flying Fortresses. The subsequent battle in the skies over Europe witnessed the 381st, in concert with their fellow-airmen with the Mighty Eighth, striking 297 times at Hitlers Fortress Europe and dropping over 22,000 tons of ordnance in the process. The cost to the group was 131 aircraft and over 1200 combat crew missing in action, sustained during the course of a fiercely contested struggle stretching over 1000 days.