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5.0 out of 5 stars
The Most Complete Documentation of the Mission,
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This review is from: Ploesti Raid Through the Lens (Hardcover)
As much information as you could want about Tidal Wave, including planning maps, before and after action photo recon aerials, and more photographs of crew, aircraft, and the raid itself than ever before available to the public. Formation diagrams of each group make the narrative much easier to understand than in any previous work. Complete crew lists. Invaluable for a person interested in all aspects of the mission of August 1, 1943. Pricey but worth it. A worthy coda to the work of Roger Freeman.
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Magnificent Photo-History of a Famous Bomber Raid!,
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This review is from: Ploesti Raid Through the Lens (Hardcover)
Wow! The legendary low-level U. S. air strike on Ploesti, Rumania is magnificently documented in words and images in Roger Freeman's PLOESTI THROUGH THE LENS, published in 2004 by After the Battle Publishing. It's safe to say no combat mission has been ever been documented as thoroughly as the 1 August 1943 strike covered in PLOESTI THROUGH THE LENS; Freeman's book sets the standard! And it's a damn fine read to boot!
Superlatives come easy when discussing Freeman's book. He packs tons of information and images in the book's 160 pages. A smooth-flowing, incisive text is complimented by hundreds of photographs, maps, diagrams and formation plan views that cover every aspect of the daring but costly strike by five 8th and 9th AF B-24 groups on the lucrative Ploesti oil refineries. All the material is blended together to make a coherent whole that lets the reader follow the mission from start to finish. Needless to say, the many photos taken during the actual mission are spell-binding...and well captioned by Freeman. Almost all of the pix have never been published so PLOESTI THROUGH THE LENS is quite a treasure trove for air war enthusiasts. In short, six stars got to Roger Freeman and After the Battle Publishing for putting together this fascinating, evocative recreation of one helluva mission. Highly recommended. ******** Readers might also want to check out Michael Hill's BLACK SUNDAY, the best of the "other" books on Ploesti. |
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Ploesti Raid Through the Lens by Roger a. Freeman (Hardcover - May 2004)
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