He's respectful, while also being a solid reporter. We will visit the spectacular new American Air Museum, winner of a number of architectural awards. The book takes an in depth look at the heroic men, humanity-rending details, and philosophical questions that make up the story of the USAAF that won the war in the skies. Despite the inherent drama, there ain't much traditional plot -- but maybe that's why I'm not a screenwriter!Easily one of the best things I've read on the "Mighty Eighth Air Force" in WWII -- but like The Monuments Men, I don't see how they (Spielberg, Hanks, and HBO) are going to make a miniseries out of it.
It has first person accounts; profiles on the planes; men; and equipment. Occasionally, Miller dives into what I'd have to call "soft" language to describe the historical figures he's covering.
It merely shows how deadly being on a Bomber crew was and that they couldn't just hide in a fox hole or behind a building. It has sections on the beginnings of air medicine; and the psychological aspects of what the crews went through. Il analyse également les commentaires pour vérifier leur fiabilité.Malheureusement, nous n'avons pas réussi à enregistrer votre vote. The title made it sound like it would be a very narrative-driven, Stephen E. Ambrose-like history of the 8th Air Force's bomber crewmen, but as other reviewers here have noted, it was far more than that.
Between 26,000 and 28,000 fliers were killed, adding in the number of wounded and psychological casualties it amounted to over 34% of those who experienced combat, (210,000 crewmen). 5,461
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An excellant choice of world war 2 book to purchase and enjoy.
How did one deal with the enormous stresses and paradoxes of flying a mission over Berlin during the day and going to bed in a soft bed in the evening? This is truly a history of the first American organization that entered combat in Europe. I can appreciate it, but I can't fathom facing 20 mm cannon fire and 88 mm flak shells bursting all around while attempting to kill the German fighters while navigating and sighting and dropping your bombs on target. Miller is the John Henry MacCracken Professor of History at Lafayette College and an expert on World War II, among other topics in American history. Essentially, the Eighth Air Force ushered in the age of large scale strategic bombing, developing, testing, revising and debating the effectiveness and morality of air campaigns as it proceeded. As American bombers are picked off one by one, their mission becomes very clear: survive. It has first person accounts; profiles on the planes; men; and equipment.
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Half of it is certainly the romance of the hard drinking, leather jacket wearing, English-country side-residing pilot, but the other half is the curiosity of how it was humanly possible to have the will power to go up against the German juggernaut and sustain such staggering casualty rates, and get up at 4am the next morning to do it again.Continuing my dive into the ETO bombing campaign, I just finished up with Miller's brilliant and exhaustively researched examination of the Eighth Air Force's performance. The 8th air force took an incredible number of casualties and those who survived experienced trauma beyond human comprehension.
My favorite parts were the individual soldiers' stories and their personal experiences in the bombers, fighters, and POW camps. The book takes an in depth look at the heroic men, humanity-rending details, and philosophical questions that make up the story of the USAAF that won the war in the skies. The noise was deafening, the air was cold, and the enemy could hear the approach.
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The bomber boys on their way down would pray to be found by the German military before civilians could get to them.