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Best selling historian Stephen Ambrose describes how the Army Air Forces recruited, trained, and chose those few who would undertake the most demanding and dangerous jobs in the war. These are the boys - turned pilots, bombardiers, navigators, and gunners of the B-24s - who suffered over 50 percent casualties.
Ambrose carries us along in the crowded, uncomfortable, and dangerous B-24s as their crews fought to the death - through thick, black, deadly flak - to reach their targets and destroy the German war machine. Twenty-two-year-old George McGovern, later a United States senator and a presidential candidate, flew 35 combat missions (all the Army would allow) and won the Distinguished Flying Cross. We meet him and his mates, his co-pilot killed in action, and crews of other planes - many of whom did not come back.
As Band of Brothers and Citizen Soldiers portrayed the bravery and ultimate victory of the American soldier from Normandy on to Germany, The Wild Blue makes clear the contribution the young men of the Army Air Forces stationed in Italy made to the Allied victory.
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Average Customer Review: 4.2 of 5
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
ISBN: 0-7435-0787-8
Audio Length: 8 hours and 48 min.
Other audio books by Stephen E. Ambrose:
Band of Brothers
Citizen Soldiers
D-Day
Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician 1962-1972 (Unabridged)
Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 (Unabridged)
The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II
To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian
Undaunted Courage (Unabridged)
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
