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WWII--USAAF--3rd ATTACK GROUP

WWII--USAAF--3rd ATTACK GROUP "GRIM REAPERS"--NEW GUINEA--B-25 PILOT'S MEMOIR!

$ 8.44

Availability: 47 in stock
  • Theme: Militaria
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Item must be returned within: 14 Days
  • Region of Origin: United States
  • Time Period Manufactured: 1930-Now
  • War: WWII
  • Year: 2002
  • Condition: EXCELLENT
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Type: Book
  • Modified Item: No
  • Original/Reproduction: Original
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Conflict: WW II (1939-45)
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer

    Description

    "THE GRIM REAPERS AT WORK IN THE PACIFIC THEATRE--THE THIRD ATTACK GROUP OF THE U.S. FIFTH AIR FORCE" is the detailed story of the men who flew B-25s of the 3rd Attack Group ("The Grim Reapers") in the Southwest Pacific (based in New Guinea) during WWII. Chapter titles are: 1. Jenny, 2. Notre Dame, "My" Lady, 3. Fate, 4. First Hits, 5. New Guinea, 6. The Making of a One-Legged Golfer, 7. Battle of the Bismarck Sea, 8. Jungle Living, 9. A Moonlit Miss, 10. Wewak, 11. "Steak and Eggs" and "Fat Cat" (two B-25s), 12. The Leapfrog Classic, 13. The 75 Millimeter Cannon (on a B-25), 14. Rabaul, 15. Whiskey Drop, 16. Field Promotion, 17. Advancing the Bomb Line, 18. Island Villages, 19. One Lucky Fellow, 20. The DSC, 21. Hollandia, 22. Wewak Again, 23. Sentani, 24. A-26B, 25. Leyte, 26. Back to New Guinea, 27. Mac & Me. TONS of RARE PHOTOGRAPHS! The B-25 #946 "MARGARET" is here! Memorabilia is here! General George Kenney is here! Col Paul "Pappy" Gunn is here! The B-25 "MARY McGUIRE" is here! The 19th Squadron is here! The B-25 "CHATTERBOX" is here! "Seventeen-Mile Airstrip" is here! Capt John "Robbie" Robinson is here! Combat photos are here! Maps are here! The B-25 "NOTRE DAME DE VICTORIE" is here! The B-25 "SEABISCUIT" is here! ON THE COVER SEEN BELOW: Oil painting entitled "Simpson Harbor" depicts the Nov 2, 1943 attack led by the B-25 "Notre Dame De Victorie"--the author's B-25--as it crosses Simpson Harbor and the town of Rabaul, New Britain. Henebry had just dropped a 1000-pound bomb into the freighter "Hokuyo Maru" and had scored another direct hit on the freighter "Hakusan Maru". This painting hangs in the Hap Arnold Corridor at the Pentagon.
    Book is HARDBACK with DUSTJACKET published in 2002. It is in EXCELLENT CONDITION, measures 7 3/8" x 10 1/4", and contains 210 pages with TONS of original photographs!
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