Air Apaches: The True Story of the 345th Bomb Group and Its Low, Fast, and Deadly Missions in World War II (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811772686)

Historian and aviator Jay Stout follows up his spellbinding account of the U.S. 303rd Bomb Group--Hell's Angels--with the equally remarkable story of the Air Apaches in the Pacific. Air Apaches reconstructs the war of the 345th Bomb Group in impressively painstaking detail, capturing what it was like to be one of the young men flying low-level bombing and strafing missions and--if the missions weren't dangerous enough--facing such challenges as kamikaze attacks and, if a pilot was shot down, primitive jungle conditions and a sword-brandishing enemy who did not treat downed airmen by the letter of the Geneva Convention. Air Apaches is more than the story of one unit in aerial combat in World War II. It is the story of men at war across all of history.

Author: Jay A. Stout
ISBN-10: 0811772683
ISBN-13: 9780811772686
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2023
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.82h x 5.98w x 0.94d