Forgotten Fifteenth by Barrett Tillman

Author:Barrett Tillman [Tillman, Barrett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781621572350
Publisher: Regnery Publishing

From the time the Fifth Photo Group joined the Fifteenth in October 1944 until V-E Day in May 1945, it logged 1,873 missions, losing eight pilots in combat or accidents. The recon flights yielded 15,700 “pinpoints” (specific photo targets), with 332,000 negatives producing 809,000 prints. The imagery was included in 1,700 reports forwarded to Fifteenth Air Force headquarters.24 The statistics, however, hardly convey the Photo Joes’ contribution to the strategic air campaign. The mechanics on the flight line, the pilots who usually flew solo sorties hundreds of miles through hostile airspace, the lab techs who processed the film, and the bleary-eyed analysts who stared at thousands of pictures—the members of the Fifth Photo Group fought the Mediterranean air war in relative obscurity. But headquarters at Bari knew their value—and so did the Luftwaffe, which tried hard to stop them.

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