Kipling's Error III: They Were Good Americans, the Story of the B-17 Flying Fortress - Hardcover

Mitchell, Brooks

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0960729860 ISBN 13: 9780960729869

Publisher: 21st Century Publishers, 2005

Synopsis

The touching, riveting story straight from the Kipling's Error flight crew diaries and vinatge photographs chronicling twenty-five successful raids over enemy occupied Europe from their bas in Snetterton-Heath, England. "The crew of Kipling;s Error was tops. Nobody backed down, Nobody turned around, nobody quit." --Stanley Hand, USAF (Ret) Commanding Officer 413th Bombardment Squadron, 96th Bombardment Group

About this title

Product Description:

Unusual book

Synopsis:

On the morning of 28 July 1943, on a raid to Oschersleben, Germany, Kipling's Error III was ambushed through thick cloud cover by as many as 200 German fighters and witnessed another group's lead ship being hit in the bomb bay while carrying incendiary bombs that morning. It is mentioned that the explosion was so terrific that it caused the downing of the other two wing ships as well. These accounts and others are related here in the documented diaries of five crew members in vivid detail.

About this edition

• Publisher: 21st Century Publishers
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0960729860
• ISBN 13: 9780960729869
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 229