Mission 85

On August 19, 1943, two days after the famous Schweinfurt-Regensburg raid, bombers and fighters of the U.S. Eighth Air Force launched attacks against German airfields in Holland -- a mission they thought would be easy, a so-called milk run, but it proved to be anything but. Ivo de Jong provides det [...]
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On August 19, 1943, two days after the famous Schweinfurt-Regensburg raid, bombers and fighters of the U.S. Eighth Air Force launched attacks against German airfields in Holland -- a mission they thought would be easy, a so-called milk run, but it proved to be anything but. Ivo de Jong provides detailed historical context but relies heavily on firsthand accounts of aerial combat from diaries, letters, after-action reports, and interviews with pilots and crews on both sides.