Bibliograph

Hit the target, eight men who led the Eighth Air Force to victory over the Luftwaffe, Bill Yenne

Type

Label

Hit the target, eight men who led the Eighth Air Force to victory over the Luftwaffe, Bill Yenne

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-357) and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Hit the target

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

893894926

Responsibility statement

Bill Yenne

Sub title

eight men who led the Eighth Air Force to victory over the Luftwaffe

Summary

Hit the Target introduces readers to those who made the Eighth Air Force the formidable juggernaut it soon became. Men of all ranks, from General Tooey Spaatz, the hard-driving founding commander, to Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, the hero who led the first air raid on Japan, to Maynard “Snuffy” Smith, the irascible first airman in Europe to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, and Robert “Rosie” Rosenthal, who survived his time with the “Bloody Hundredth,” which lost airmen at a horrifying rate, and who went on to serve as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Eight men who led the Eighth Air Force to victory over the Luftwaffe

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