B-24 Liberator

Combat Photograhs from the Mediterranean Theater of War

Bob Livingstone (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

96 Seiten

2023
Key Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80282-719-4 (ISBN)

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The B-24 Liberator served as the workhorse of the US armed forces and was used in every theater of war. Under the command of Colonel Halverson, a US task force known as HALPRO was sent to attack Japan, but was diverted en route and instead became embroiled in the Mediterranean theater, carrying out bombing raids to arrest the progress of Axis forces. Images of the early days of the RAF, HALPRO and the US's 9th and 12th Air Forces illustrate the difficult sandy and dusty conditions in the North African desert, as well as the less sophisticated early model B-24s. The 15th Air Force, operating from Southern Italy, lived in tents through the particularly cold winter of 1944-45, and the sight of the snowy Alps that they crossed daily must have made crews wonder just how they would fare if their aircraft was brought down there. Crossing the Adriatic would have brought different challenges: the B-24 was not best regarded as a ditching platform, and so the Isle of Vis off Croatia beckoned to crews dealing with fuel shortages and battle damage once they left the Croatian coast and were bound for Italy. Unit photographers captured dramatic scenes as bombers were struck with flak and control was lost and many are included in this illustrated volume. With more than 150 images, this book presents a graphic account of the B-24 Liberator, its missions and crews against the backdrop of the Mediterranean theater of war.

Bob Livingstone is an author living in Australia. His flying training in the 1960s was cut short by army conscription and a year in Vietnam. After returning to civilian life, he elected to train as an air traffic controller, rising to SATCO of the two controlled GA airfields in west Sydney and closed a 30-year career in the tower at Sydney International. In retirement, he has continued to research and write on aviation subjects and work as a technical and text editor on other authors' books and articles, holding various committee positions in aviation history organisations and is a foundation member of the Queensland Air Museum. His interest in the B-24 stems from his father's RAAF service as a navigator in the RAF's 160 (GR) Squadron, operating from Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1944. During his ATC career, he wrote many articles and supplied photographs for various Australian aviation magazines, including a monthly column for Australian Flying for 10 years, senior writer on Flightpath and contributing to Australian Aviation. He was also a contributor to many UK magazines, such as Air Forces Monthly, FlyPast, Aeroplane Monthly and Warbirds Worldwide. He has his own website dedicated to the B-24 and was the aviation/B-24 advisor on the film Unbroken while it filmed in Australia. He has written a number of books on the B-24, the most recent of which was published by Key Publishing.

Erscheinungsdatum	11.07.2023
Zusatzinfo	Over 150
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 243 mm
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-80282-719-6 / 1802827196
ISBN-13	978-1-80282-719-4 / 9781802827194
Zustand	Neuware