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Target Berlin Mission 250: 6 March 1944 #AAAPHRD0021
 
Target Berlin Mission 250: 6 March 1944
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$6.99
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Used
Genre:
Aviation
Company:
Arms And Armour Press

The book, Target Berlin Mission 250: 6 March 1944 chronicles from both the American and German perspectives, the detailed events that transpired on 6 March 1044, which was the American’s first large-scale bomber raid on Berlin.  “Target Berlin Mission 250: 6 March 1944” is a compellingly readable, well-researched minute-by-minute account of this raid.  The authors pooled their many sources of material and contacts among ex-members of the United States Army Air Force and the Luftwaffe to detail the part played in the action by almost every unit committed to battle on each side.  In writing “Target Berlin Mission 250: 6 March 1944” the authors interviewed more than 160 American bomber and fighter crewmen, German Luftwaffe fighter pilots, flak gunners along with the men and women living in Berlin in 1944 while these huge air battles were being fought over Germany during 1944.  The major sections of “Target Berlin Mission 250: 6 March 1944” are as follows: 1) Illustrations; 2) Introduction; 3) Author’s Note; 4) Prologue; 5) Chapter 1 – Monday 6 March 1944; 6) Chapter 2 – Arraying For Battle; 7) Chapter 3 – Clash Over Haseluenne; 8) Chapter 4 – The Destroyers Strike; 9) Chapter 5 – The Battle At Berlin; 10) Chapter 6 – The Long Way Home; 11) Chapter 7 – Aftermath; 12) Chapter 8 – The 6 March Action Analyzed; 13) Chapter 9 – The Media’s Assessment; 14) Chapter 10 – In Retrospect; 15) Postscript; 16) The Witnesses; 17) Bibliography; 18) Appendix A – Equivalent Ranks; 19) Appendix B – The Striking Force; 20) Appendix C – Fighter Units Available For the Defense Of Germany, 6 March 1944, And Aircraft Serviceable; 21) Appendix D – The Defensive Reaction, 6 March 1944; 22) Appendix E – US Combat Losses, 6 March 1944; 23) Appendix F – German Losses, 6 March 1944 and 24) Index.  In addition to an informative narrative, “Target Berlin Mission 250: 6 March 1944” includes the following features: 1) Approximately 73 black and white photographs and 2) About 10 maps.  This book is 212 pages and is in overall very good condition.  Note: there is a short, repaired tear in the upper left-hand corner of the front dust cover and the former owners name is stamped on the inside book cover.  The authors are Jeffrey L. Ethell And Alfred Price.  Edition published in 1989.

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