Hit the Target: Eight Men who Led The Eighth Air Force to Victory over the Luftwaffe - Paperback

by Bill Yenne (Author)

-- Big Week Less than a month after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Army formed its first air force designated to operate overseas, the Eighth. Within four months, they had set up base in England. Three months later, they were bombing German targets in occupied Europe. The Eighth was the first bomber command on either side to commit to strategic daylight bombing. It was a major change in tactics?and the men of the Eighth paid the price in both lives and blood. But it was that very sacrifice that led the Allies to victory. Hit the Target The story of the Mighty Eighth is told through these men, whose careers paralleled the early history of aviation? and who helped? to revolutionize airborne warfare and win World War II. INCLUDES PHOTOS.

Author Biography

Bill Yenne is the author of more than three dozen nonfiction books, especially on aviation and military history, including Big Week and Aces High. He lives and works in San Francisco, California.