The B-17: The Flying Forts by Caidin Martin

Author:Caidin, Martin [Caidin, Martin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: USA, Aerial operations, Second World War, Military - Aviation, war, Battles & campaigns, Bombers, American, American history: Second World War, B-17 bomber., History - Military, fiction, Airplanes, World War, Military, Aviation, Romance - Western, World history: Second World War, Western, Romance, 1939-1945, Military History, B-17 bomber, General, Air forces & warfare, European history: Second World War, History
ISBN: 9780743434706
Publisher: iBooks
Published: 2010-09-10T04:00:00+00:00

The kindergarten missions continued with what now seems a pathetically small token force of aircraft. The shipyards at Le Trait were attacked by twelve Fortresses. Eleven reached the target at Meaulte—the Avions Potez aircraft factory and repair depot where the Luftwaffe was presumably licking the wounds it had received during the furious air battle that had accompanied the Allied landing at Dieppe. Thirteen were dispatched to bomb the German fighter airdrome at Courtrai-Wevelgem, in Belgium. From every mission new lessons were learned.

All these missions were carried out in weather which was so good that later it seemed like a happy dream. And as mission after mission ended with no aircraft lost, the British press, cautious at first, became more and more enthusiastic. They speculated with amazement on the stamina of the American crews who failed to be affected by altitude. The Evening Standard surmised wisely that it was probably because the American airmen were such husky specimens— baseball players, no less. A British doctor went aloft with a crew to study the effects of high-altitude flying and promptly passed out himself—an incident which merely enhanced the legend. . . . 42

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