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This is the dramatic history of the American bomber males in World War II who helped bring the conflict to Hitler's doorstep. Along with the narrative electric power of fiction, this is a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden. Fighting at 25,000 ft in slim, freezing air no warriors had encountered before, bomber crews battled new sorts of assaults on mind and body. Air combat was dangerous but intermittent: intervals of inactivity and panic were followed by brief bursts of open fire and fear. Unlike infantrymen, bomber males slept on clean mattress sheets, drank beer in local pubs, and danced to the music of Glenn Miller's Air Make Band. But they had a much greater potential for dying than earth troops. In 1943 an American bomber crewman stood only a one-in-five potential for surviving his tour of work. The 8th Air Make lost more men in the conflict than the US Marine Corps. The bomber crews were at the very top band of warriors. Acting professional Jimmy Stewart was a bomber guy, as was "King of Hollywood" Clark Gable. Mid-air conflict was filmed by Oscar-winning director William Wyler and included in reporters like Andy Rooney and Walter Cronkite, most of whom flew combat missions with the men. The Anglo-American bombing plan against Nazi Germany was the longest armed forces plan of World War II, a conflict within a conflict. Until Allied troops crossed into Germany in the final a few months of the conflict, it was the only fight fought inside the German homeland. Strategic bombing did not win the conflict, but the conflict cannot have been received without it. American airpower demolished the rail facilities and petrol refineries that provided the German conflict machine. The bombing plan was a distributed organization: The British isles bombed during the night while North american bombers attacked by day - a technique that British isles commanders thought was suicidal. Attracted from interviews, oral histories, and North american, British, German, and other archives, this can be an authoritative, deeply moving profile of the world's first and only bomber war.
