Smith, Graham, — THE MIGHTY EIGHTH IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

Countryside Books, Newbury, 2001, 1st edn., paperback original, 300pp, half tone photo ills. in text, decorative chapter heads, large format (8 x 6" approx.), coloured photo pictorial upper wrapper, the first elements of the newly formed Eith U. S. Army Air Force arrived in Britain in May 1942, five months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Over the next two years the air force expaned to occupy 67 airfields in East Anglia and central England, joining Bomber Command's night bombing campaign with their daylight bombing of Germany to provide a round the clock bombardment. It was a costly battle with 26,000 American airmen killed and 6,300 aircraft destroyed on missions that included u-boat bases, oil refineries, marshalling yards ball-bearing factories and industrial targets throught Germany and occupied Europe, until the surrender of Germany in May, 1945, fine,