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Flying Fortress

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This book is a "must have" for any collector of air combat books. The best of the best. Excellent collections of factual stories. Completely entertaining. If you can't buy it look for it in a good public library and enjoy. Then try to buy it for your private library. BOB STANE President B-17 Combat Crewmen & Wingmen Pasadena, California

If want a clear concise history of the B-17, from the planes that inspired it, through the development of Project 299, through WWII, this is perhaps the best book on the subject. Written over 30 years ago, it includes information that is rarely heard of today.

This is an accurate account of a vital era of American air power which helped preserve the freedom of the world. The validation of air power as a vital offensive and defensive necessity in war was made by the author's objective presentation of just one of America's battle aircraft. My brother-in-law's B-17 is pictured upside down over Naples, Italy, although not identified, on the full-page picture. I can supply information if author or anyone is interested.

I first read this book when I was a seventh grader, growing up in Virginia. Over the years, I checked it out of our small high school library so many times that in the early 1970s I probably could have recited entire passages about The Bloody 100th or Rosie's adventures with the Russians. Jablonski was an incredible story teller, and his work easily is one of the reasons I fell in love with history.

This book is true excellence of factual accounts, the photos and media doccumentation is facinating. Jablonski was true Hero, his descritions of the crippled bird over Berlin and other cities is acceptional. Even if your not an Aviatrix you will love the history and coverage of Europe/East Block. If you liked this try to read his others:DOUBLE STRIKE, MEN WITH WINGS, Ladybirds: Women in Aviation and rarer to find.OH AND MEN WITH WINGS, and his HISTORY OF FLIGHT (a photo collection) wonderful,how he had time to write all he did-even GEORGE GERSCHWIN he wrote of, All his books are becoming scarce to find and a treasure to the Aviation Collector.

Excellent book for anyone who likes aviation and the history of the B17