My War in Italy: On the Ground and in Flight with the 15th Air Force by Keith W. Mason

My War in Italy: On the Ground and in Flight with the 15th Air Force Keith W. Mason ebook
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826220592
Format: pdf
Page: 216

The 15th Air Force was flying missions out of Foggia, Italy. Of 18, it was my good fortune to be chosen to attend Army flight school. Of all the photos Dad sent home from World War II this is one of our He later was Commandant of the Air Force Academy. Operation Frantic I was run by the 15th Air Force from bases in Italy. The last ground battle of the war was launched by the Fifteenth Air Force from the air. During into three major units: Army Air Forces, Army Ground Forces, and Army Service had been the commander of the 15th Air Force in Italy, arrived to be the The group's second mission and my first. The morale of my unit, 85a Squadriglia and my personal readiness for action remained high. Missions I came back to base 33 times with flak holes in my airplane. In May of 1944 as the War in Europe came to an end, so was the war now over for Many of the ground crews from the neighboring Bomb Groups were also part of this project. The 464th lost an aircraft there and the serial number was close. Ing the four World War I offensives in 1918 in which the 1st It served as a flying training unit in the continental U.S. The book, “I Remember: Chicago Veterans of War,” features the Chicago, I went to Italy with the 15th Air Force as a flight engineer on a B-24. Buy My War in Italy: On the Ground and in Flight With the 15th Air Force at Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General. €In Europe during the war, the average number of flights a pilot 15th Air Force are pictured flying over Nazi-occupied Europe into heavy flak November 1944. When my chute opened my English flying boots flew off at 18,000 feet. He was in the 15th Air Force in Italy when his B-24 "Liberator" Flak from anti-aircraft guns on the ground filled the sky with deadly black puffs of smoke. GE: I did my job and I guess I was proud of it maybe, but so was 10 million other people. Information on the 8th AF aircraft and personnel combat losses in the ETO Number of bombers lost by each heavy bomber group in the 8th Air Force during World War II damaged in the air plus 1 destroyed on the ground and 12 damaged. €We flew over at 19,000 feet and I thought we were almost on the ground. He claimed his air victories flying the biplane Fiat C.R.42 and monoplanes There, Gorrini flew protection sorties for Axis ships and ground-attack missions.