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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade
ISBN: 0743203399
Release Date: Jan 1, 1997
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 4 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
Stephen Ambrose is the acknowledged dean of the historians of World War II in Europe. In three highly acclaimed, bestselling volumes, he has told the story of the bravery, steadfastness, and ingenuity of the ordinary young men, the citizen soldiers, who fought the enemy to a standstill -- the band of brothers who endured together.
The very young men who flew the B-24s over Germany in World War II against terrible odds were yet another exceptional band of brothers, and, in The Wild Blue, Ambrose recounts their extraordinary brand of heroism, skill, daring, and comradeship with the same vivid detail and affection.
Ambrose describes how the Army Air Forces recruited, trained, and then 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.
With his remarkable gift for bringing alive the action and tension of combat, Ambrose carries us along in the crowded, uncomfortable, and dangerous B-24s as their crews fought to the death through thick black smoke and deadly flak to reach their targets and destroy the German war machine. Twenty-two-year-old George McGovern, who was to become a United States senator and a presidential candidate, flew thirty-five 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 went down in flames.
As Band of Brothers and Citizen Soldiers portrayed the bravery and ultimate victory of the American soldiers from Normandy on to Germany, The Wild Blue makes clear the contribution these young men of the Army Air Forces stationed in Italy made to the Allied victory.
| | | | From The Publisher
Stephen Ambrose is the acknowledged dean of the historians of World War II in Europe. In three highly acclaimed, bestselling volumes, he has told the story of the bravery, steadfastness, and ingenuity of the ordinary young men, the citizen soldiers, who fought the enemy to a standstill -- the band of brothers who endured together. The very young men who flew the B-24s over Germany in World War II against terrible odds were yet another exceptional band of brothers, and, in The Wild Blue, Ambrose recounts their extraordinary brand of heroism, skill, daring, and comradeship with the same vivid detail and affection. With his remarkable gift for bringing alive the action and tension of combat, Ambrose carries us along in the crowded, uncomfortable, and dangerous B-24s as their crews fought to the death through thick black smoke and deadly flak to reach their targets and destroy the German war machine.
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Great Book
-- A reviewer, A Military Buff, May 30, 2002
Also Recommended: Band of Brothers, D-Day, Black Hawk Down, In Honored Glory.
Mixed Reactions
-- Bryan, January 23, 2002
are any left?
-- e.n.bruton, April 29, 2002
Gripping stories but too many names to follow.
-- J Scott, January 24, 2002
Also Recommended: Favorite books of this Genre: Band of Brothers, The Right Stuff, The End of War
| |  | | | | Acknowledgments | 9 | | Author's Note | 17 | | Prologue | 21 | | Cast of Characters | 25 | | Ch. 1 | Where They Came From | 27 | | Ch. 2 | Training | 49 | | Ch. 3 | Learning to Fly the B-24 | 77 | | Ch. 4 | The Fifteenth Air Force | 105 | | Ch. 5 | Cerignola, Italy | 127 | | Ch. 6 | Learning to Fly in Combat | 153 | | Ch. 7 | December 1944 | 173 | | Ch. 8 | The Isle of Capri | 199 | | Ch. 9 | The Tuskegee Airmen Fly Cover: February 1945 | 209 | | Ch. 10 | Missions over Austria: March 1945 | 225 | | Ch. 11 | Linz: The Last Mission: April 1945 | 237 | | Epilogue | 253 | | Notes | 265 | | Bibliography | 279 | | Index | 283 |
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