This is a new history of the U.S. Army Air Force’s pioneering but costly raids on Germany's Messerschmitt and ball-bearing factories in World War II.In 1943, the USAAF and RAF launched the Combined Bo
On 17 August 1943, the entire strength of the American heavy bomber forces in England set out to raid two major industrial complexes deep in southern Germany, the vast Messerschmitt aircraft factory a
Gives the reader a firsthand look at war from inside a B-17 bomber in World War II Focuses on the 92nd Bomb Group, 8th Air Force and includes missions to the Schweinfurt ball-bearing plant and Berlin
In Germany, in 1814, Wilhelm Sattler created an extremely toxic arsenic and verdigris compound pigment, Schweinfurt green–known also as Paris, Vienna, or emerald green–which became an instant favorite
Minute-by-minute chronicle of the U.S. Eighth Air Force's bombing mission against German airfields in HollandMission came just days after the famous Schweinfurt-Regensburg raidThe Americans expected a
Executive editor Graeme Dunphy, Professor of Translation at the University of Applied Sciences of Würzburg-Schweinfurt, GermanyThe Encyclopedia of Early Modern History offers 400 years of early modern
Executive editor Graeme Dunphy, Professor of Translation at the University of Applied Sciences of Würzburg-Schweinfurt, GermanyThe Encyclopedia of Early Modern History offers 400 years of early modern
