The Mighty Eighth in WWII: A Memoir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813191591)

On an early morning in the fall of 1942, Kemp McLaughlin's group set out for a raid on a French target. Immediately after dropping its bombs, McLaughlin's plane was hit. A huge fire burned a four-foot hole in his wing, his waist gunner bailed out, his radio operator was wounded, the plane lost all oxygen, and his pilot put on a parachute and sat on the escape hatch, waiting for the plane to explode. And this was only McLaughlin's first sortie. McLaughlin went on to pilot the mission command plan

Author: J. Kemp McLaughlin
ISBN-10: 0813191599
ISBN-13: 9780813191591
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 03/03/2006
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 7.76h x 5.54w x 0.61d