US Military in WW2 - Fighter Pilots : Black Thursday, The Saga of Pappy Gunn and Thunderbolt!

US Military in WW2: Fighter Pilots presents three first-hand accounts of life as a combat pilot during World War 2.Black Thursday: The Story of the Schweinfurt Raid by Martin Caidin The blow-by-blow account of the United States Air Force's massive bombing raid into Nazi Germany's industrial heartland on Thursday, October 14, 1943. On that fateful day two hundred and ninety-one hulking B-17 Flying Fortresses - escorted by squadrons of nimble P-47 Thunderbolts - miraculously fought their way through swarms of enemy aircraft on their way to cripple Nazi Germany's vital ball-bearings plant at Schweinfurt.The Saga of Pappy Gunn by George Churchill KenneyThe best-selling biography of legendary World War 2 Air Force fighter pilot, Colonel Paul Irving Gunn.Thunderbolt! The Extraordinary Story of a World War II Ace by Martin Caidin and Robert S. JohnsonRobert S. Johnson was one of America's leading fighter pilot aces in World War II. His memoir is an action-packed narrative of how a young man from Lawton, Oklahoma went on to amass 28 enemy kills, the first U. S. Army Air Force pilot in the European theater to surpass Eddie Rickenbacker's World War I tally of 26.*Page notes and annotations.*Original hand-picked images from World War 2.*Revised texts with modern American-English spelling and punctuation.