- The Three Musketeers of the Army Air Forces: from Hitler's Fortress Europa to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Book
CID:
- 68660
Class:
- 38
Authors:
- Harder, R. O.
Place of Publication:
- Annapolis, MD
Publisher:
- Naval Institute Press
Publication Date:
- 2015
Subjects:
- Biography
- Service Aviation - Foreign Air Forces
- Service Aviation - World War II
Abstract:
- A group biography of Paul Tibbets, Tom Ferebee and Ted “Dutch” Van Kirk - the crew of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress 'Enola Gay' which dropped the ‘Little Boy’ atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6 1945 - from their intial experiences of strategic bombing over Germany in August 1942 through to a detailed analysis of the atomic bomb raids, concluding with the launch of the 'Fat Boy' plutonium bomb - the second atomic bomb dropped over the city of Nagasaki on August 9 1945 - which culminated in the cessation of the Second World War.
Notes:
- (PHY) Illustrated
- (GEN) Distributed by Eurospan Group, London.
Price:
- 25.99
Collation:
- 288pp.
Historical Created Date:
- 08 Mar 2016
Publication Date Information:
- 2015