Product Description
From every known source Roger Freeman has collected a remarkable selection of aviation and wartime scenes showing the US Eighth Air Force at work and play at their English bases. There is more Second World War colour aviation photography in this new book than has ever before been seen in one place, making this a must-have book not just for the British and American veterans who were there, but for the later generations of enthusiasts fascinated by every detail, every record they can find of the Mighty Eighth. This lavish book recalls the daring and dangerous exhilaration of those days. Here are photographs of the aircraft and their weaponry taken by their crews as a personal record, using simple cameras and Kodachrome film brought in from the US. They took photographs of everything around them: the base, their buddies, aircraft in action, on the ground, their favourite nose art, airfields and the countryside from the air, all featured here, some 600 evocative, authentic photographs of the period. Arrangement is alphabetical by home base, to provide a rare and remarkable record of military aviation over wartime England
About the Author
Roger Freeman is the world's leading authority on the wartime role of the US Eighth Air Force in Britain. His previous books on the subject have sold over 200,000 copies worldwide and his expertise is behind any number of film, TV and radio scripts. A retired farmer, he still lives on the farm where, as a boy, he saw the coming of the Americans to new bases all around him; he has never lost his fascination with those times. His best-known book, The Mighty Eighth, was recently voted their favourite aviation book of all time by the readers of FlyPast magazine.
