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The Wild Blue Yonder and Beyond The 95th Bomb Group in War and Peace / Rob Morris with Ian Hawkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morris, Rob, 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American.
- United States. Army Air Forces. Bomb Group (H), 95th--History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 p.)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The 95th Bomb Group (Heavy), the most highly decorated bomb group of World War II, participated in every major mission of the war from May 1943 through the war's end and won an unprecedented three Presidential Unit Citations (known as the Distinguished Unit Citation before 1966). Flying the celebrated B-17 Flying Fortress, the 95th was the first U.S. bomb group to bomb Berlin-a feat that put it in the centerfold of LIFE magazine-and the last group to lose a plane over Europe in World War II. Over 600 men in the 95th never came home. The Wild Blue Yonder and Beyond is the first book to cover a
- Contents:
- The creation of an Air Force
- Across continents and oceans
- Alconbury and early missions
- Mission day
- Then came Kiel
- The British
- Cold sky
- DNIF: duties not involving flying
- From Kiel to the eve of Regensburg
- Replacement crews
- Wives and mothers
- Sudden death
- Entertainment and London
- Regensburg shuttle mission
- Black week
- POWs, Part I
- Internment in Switzerland and Sweden
- Escape and evasion
- MIA
- Pathfinders and Aphrodites
- Big week
- "Big B"
- D-Day
- The Russia shuttle missions
- Final combat missions
- POWs, Part II
- Manna/Chowhound missions
- Coming home
- The legacy lives on.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-59797-717-9
- OCLC:
- 806959452
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