Putting into the air the largest striking force ever committed to battle was a highly complex task and remains one of the great achievements of the war. With more than three hundred photographs and dozens of line drawings, this book relates the procedures and the improvisations that lay behind the success of this mighty air force. Over 1,700 aircraft at a time, involving 15,000 men and a vastly sophisticated supply chain, were engaged in a ceaseless war of high altitude daylight precision bombing that did much to secure eventual allied success.
- ISBN10 0304358460
- ISBN13 9780304358465
- Publish Date 8 November 2001 (first published 25 October 1984)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 April 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Weidenfeld Military
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 320
- Language English