Barbara Gotham (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. larger-format; nice copy.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and intact with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; Few small blemishes to the textblock edges; Text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be stored and delivered in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75" - 11.75" tall); White, blue, and orange dust jacket with title in black lettering; 1999, Theodore J. Williams Publishing; 512 pages; "We Went To War Part ll: A Roster of the Flight Crews of the 380th Bomb Group (H)," by Theodore J. Williams and Barbara J. Gotham & Theodore J. Williams and Barbara J. Gotham.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. private library liquidati0n new unread mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. private library liquidation new mylar unread.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. private library liquidation new mylar unread.

Gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Gut. o. A. 122 S. B416-107 9783802525179 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 181.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Presumed first edition w/NAP, two volume hardcover set, both books have bumps to their spine ends and cover corners, areas of smudging to their cloth and the edges of their text block, and paperclip creases to the head of several pages. Overall, this is a solid, Near Very Good two volume set in Good dust jackets, which have chips and creased tears to their spine ends and corners, rubbing with smudging and some light soiling to their covers, and wear to their edges, with more significant wear, including a few creased chips, to Part I. ISBNs - 0967244706 (Part I) 0967244714 (Part II).…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good+. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Limited Edition [stated]. Two volumes each approx. 8.5" by 12", Various paginations, with hundreds of pages of rosters-complete lists of personnel and many other pages of information. Illustrations. Tabular Data. The dust jackets have some wear and soiling. Volume I has a color frontis. illustration (a reproduction of a print by Frances Johnston) and Volume II has a frontis. photo of a heavy bomber. The roster that comprises Part I "has been prepared under the auspices of the 380th Bomb Group Association, Inc., the organization of wartime veterans of service in the 380th Bomb Group and their families and associates. Australian veterans who served with or worked with the 380th are also welcomed as members of the Association."from the Introduction. These rosters have been prepared in remembrance of all who served in the 380th Bombardment Group (Heavy), Fifth Bomber Command, 5th Air Force, Far East Air Forces, USAAF, during World War II. Minor front board weakness to Part I, restrengthend with glue. Information provided includes Notes Concerning Each Listing; Collection of Data; Glossary of abbreviations and Acronyms Used; Table of Relative Rank Titles and Abbreviations. Australian Duty Titles, Command Structure, Fifth Air Force Prior to 1 July 1944; Command Structure Far East Air Forces After 1 July 1944; Command Structure North West Area Command RAAF' References. Rosters. Appendix--A Listing of MOS/SSNS. In 1942 the 380th Bombardment Group was established. It operated primarily in the Southwest Pacific Theater as a Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber unit assigned to Fifth Air Force. The history of the 380th dates back to 28 October 1942 when the unit was established. Originally, the 380th Group consisted of four squadrons, the 528th, 529th, 530th, and 531st Bombardment Squadrons. The 380th was part of Fifth Air Force, and was known as the Flying Circus and as the King of the Heavies. The 380th went overseas in April 1943 to become the second Consolidated B-24 Liberator unit in the Fifth Air Force at that time. The group arrived at Fenton Airfield, Australia. The Command's purpose was to engage in destroying Japanese strongholds in the Pacific. The group later was placed under the Australian Northwest Area Command operating out of Darwin, Northern Territory. It was the only B-24 Liberator unit attached to the RAAF. The group was assigned to train RAAF personnel on the B-24 and to secure Australia's safety against a threatened Japanese invasion along its northern coast. Upon arrival in Australia, the group immediately began combat operations. It was the only heavy bomber unit available to cover the whole of the Dutch East Indies (1,000,000 square miles) from July 1943 until late in 1944. During April and May 1944, the 380th engaged in the most intensive and sustained operations since arrival in the southwest Pacific, neutralizing the rear bases through which the Japanese might reinforce their air force in the Wakde-Hollandia area of the Netherlands East Indies. From the end of May 1944 until it moved to Murtha Field, San Jose, Mindoro, Philippines in February 1945, the 380th concentrated on neutralizing enemy bases, installations and industrial compounds in the southern and central East Indies. The Group flew the first heavy bomber strikes against targets in China and French Indochina. In June 1945, the 380th was placed under the operational control of the 13th Air Force for pre-invasion attacks against Labuan and on the oil refineries at Balikpapan in Borneo. For nearly two weeks, the Group's Liberators kept these targets under a state of aerial siege. The 380th flew its last combat missions to Taiwan. The 380th then moved to Okinawa and flew reconnaissance patrols over the Japanese islands. The group ferried released prisoners of war to Manila. On 18 October 1945, the unit was transferred to Seventh Air Force in the Philippines, where it moved to Clark Field on Luzon, and participated in the Sunset Project, the return of B-24s and their crews to the United States. Although some aircraft and crews were flown back to the United States, most of the aircraft from inactivating units were simply scrapped at Clark and personnel were returned via Navy ships from Manila. In its service with the Australians, the 380th served longer under the operational control of an Allied country than any other Air Force unit (from June 1943 until February 1945). The 380th Group was inactivated on 20 February 1946. The 380th was assigned to the South West Pacific War Area because of the long-range capabilities of the Liberator and the need for its services there at that point in the war (Spring 1943). A total of 137 planes served in Australia and New Guinea. Of these, 53 served further in The Philippines. The 380th made the longest bombing missions of WWII, to the oil refineries at Balikpapan, Borneo (200 miles further than the Ploesti mission in Europe) and to those at Surabaja, Java. Both of these missions were accomplished several times during their stay in Australia. In addition to attacks on the Japanese oil supply, the 380th was heavily engaged in crippling their shipping fleet to reduce the Japanese capability of supplying their far-flung forces. Numerous Japanese airfields were also heavily bombed in the East Indies to reduce the Japanese threat to Australia and New Guinea forces. As part of its duties in Australia, the 380th carried out the operational training of 52 Australian crews and their associated ground staffs so that the Australians could take over the East Indian campaign activities of the 380th when they were assigned to The Philippines in February 1945.…