We Flew Alone 2nd Edition: Men and Missions of the United States Navy's B-24 Liberator Squadrons Pacific Operations: February 1943-September 1944

This revised and expanded second edition covers USN and USMC squadrons that operated the Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber as the PB4Y-1 in the Pacific from early 1943 through September 1944 in the Central Pacific. Combat air crews consisted of eleven young men typically ages 18 to 26 led by a patrol plane commander in his early to mid-twenties. They flew alone on single-plane patrols often lasting ten or more hours. Alone on patrol there were no witnesses when an aircraft failed to return to base; they simply vanished, leaving little if any clues about their fate. Other aircrews sent to look for the missing would occasionally spot a deflated life raft floating or dye marker spreading across the water--evidence marking where a four-engine bomber and its crew had gone down.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Published: 09/28/2017
ISBN: 9780764353697
Pages: 152
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 10.90h x 8.50w x 0.40d