Wild blue

Description:

This title describes how the United States Air Force recruited, trained and then chose the few who would undertake the most demanding and dangerous jobs in WWII. These were the boys turned pilots, bombardiers, navigators and gunners of the B24s, who suffered 50 per cent casualties.

subjects: Aerial Bombing,  B-24 (Bomber),  Bombardiers,  Bomber pilots,  Campaigns,  United States,  American,  American Aerial operations,  Biography,  World War, 1939-1945,  Dakota Queen (B-24 bomber),  Aerial Military operations,  United States. Army Air Forces. Squadron, 741st,  Regimental histories,  Military campaigns,  History,  nyt:e-book-nonfiction=2014-04-06,  New York Times bestseller,  United states, army air forces,  World war, 1939-1945, aerial operations, american,  World war, 1939-1945, regimental histories,  Bombing, aerial,  Mcgovern, george s. (george stanley), 1922-2012,  Flight crews,  Air pilots, biography,  United states, army, biography,  B-twenty-four bomber

People: George S. McGovern (1922-2012)

Places: United States,  Germany

Times: 20th century