We Flew Alone 2nd Edition: Men and Missions of the United States Navy's B-24 Lib

Description

Collector Bookstore
724 Delaware Street
Leavenworth, KS 66048
Collector Bookstore is a leading specialty retailer of price guides and reference books to inform and educate collectors and professionals in the antiques and collectors markets. Our customers include individual collectors, dealers, appraisers, auctioneers & other industry professionals. You won't receive heavily thumbed shelf copies from us! We buy most titles directly from the publisher and individual authors. Authors are encouraged to submit their reference titles for our consideration.
SO-SCM-2017-9780764353697
We Flew Alone 2nd Edition: Men and Missions of the United States Navy's B-24 Liberator Squadrons Pacific Operations: February 1943-September 1944 by: Alan C. Carey
ISBN:
9780764353697
Book Title:
We Flew Alone 2nd Edition: Men and Missions of the United States Navy's B-24 Liberator Squadrons Pacific Operations: February 1943-September 1944
Author:
Alan C. Carey
Binding:
Soft Cover
Copyright:
2017
Pages:
152
Size:
8.5 x 11 in.
Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry.
This revised and expanded second edition covers USN and USMC squadrons that operated the Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber as the PB4Y-1 in the Pacific from early 1943 through September 1944 in the Central Pacific. Combat air crews consisted of eleven young men typically ages 18 to 26 led by a patrol plane commander in his early to mid-twenties. They flew alone on single-plane patrols often lasting ten or more hours. Alone on patrol there were no witnesses when an aircraft failed to return to base; they simply vanished, leaving little if any clues about their fate. Other aircrews sent to look for the missing would occasionally spot a deflated life raft floating or dye marker spreading across the water--evidence marking where a four-engine bomber and its crew had gone down.
150+ b/w images
(SO Schiffer Categorical generated 2021-07-09)
138d75cb9b34e85333251ecd62610bbd