High Noon Over Haseluenne

Download or read book High Noon Over Haseluenne written by Luc Dewez and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 6, 1944, and the Eighth Air Force would launch a full scale assault on the German capital of Berlin. The book deals with the 100th Bomb Group that flew the mission and the catastrophic results that ensued. The Bloody Hundredth and the mission that solidified that moniker. The concentrated attacks by the Luftwaffe would destroy sixty-nine American bombers that day, the single highest loss for any mission by the 8th Air Force, and fifteen of those losses would come from the 100th Bomb Group. It takes you inside the men and machines that had to brave one of the deadliest air battles of World War II. It lets them tell the story through firsthand accounts, personal diaries, letters home, news clippings and illustrated with over 200 photos.