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Forgotten fifteenth, the daring airmen who crippled Hitler's war machine, Barrett Tillman

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Forgotten fifteenth

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Barrett Tillman

the daring airmen who crippled Hitler's war machine

November 1943 to May 1945. The US Army Air Forces waged an unprecedentedly dogged and violent campaign against Hitler's vital oil production and industrial plants on the Third Reich's southern flank. Flying from southern Italy, far from the limelight enjoyed by the Eighth Air Force in England, the Fifteenth Air Force engaged in high-risk missions spanning most of the European continent. Their story deserves a prideful place in the annals of American gallantry. In Forgotten Fifteenth, Barrett Tillman brings into focus a seldom-seen multinational cast of characters, including pilots from Axis nations Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria. They were the first generation of fliers -- few of them professionals -- to conduct a strategic bombing campaign against a major industrial nation. They suffered steady attrition and occasionally spectacular losses. In so doing, they contributed to the end of the most destructive war in history

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Daring airmen who crippled Hitler's war machine