Masters of the air by donald l miller6/10/2023 ![]() It was a special kind of experience, different from that of the ground forces.” Before joining the Air Force, most bomber crewmen had never even flown in a plane. “American bomber crews learned to fight the air war by experience and experiment, every mission a learning exercise. “The history of the American air war against Germany is the story of an experiment: the testing of a new idea of warfare,” Miller writes. While his focus is on the boys in the bombers, his is one of the only books on the air war to document in compelling detail the physical and mental horrors of being under the bombs, in German cities. Drawing on hundreds of oral history interviews with surviving airmen and civilians who were victims of the bombing campaigns in Great Britain and Europe, as well as unpublished diaries and letters and recently de-classified government documents, Miller recreates the shattering experience of bombing, in the air and on the ground. Miller-author of the widely praised The Story of World War II-has written a riveting account of the stoic courage of these men and boys of the Greatest Generation. ![]() In Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany, celebrated historian Donald L. ![]()
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