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B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the Pacific War

By: Osprey

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Combat Aircraft - Bombers

Last Stocked on 4/18/2020

Product Info

Title
B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the Pacific War
Publisher
Category
Author
Martin Bowman
Publish Year
2003
Pages
96
Dimensions
8x10x.25"
NKG Part #
2147398066
MFG. Part #
OSPCOM039
Type
Softcover
Series
COM39

Description

The B-17 saw combat in the Pacific from the moment a formation of these bombers arrived at Pearl Harbor during the midst of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attack. By the end of the war, SB-17 rescue craft were saving combat crews in the waters off Japan. This book reveals why, to the public, the Flying Fortress was better known than the Spitfire, the Boeing 747, or Lindbergh's Spirit of St Louis. The name recognition enjoyed by the B-17 was that company's reason for creating B-17 Steak Sauce and Osprey's reason to round out the saga of this great wartime aircraft.