The United States Army Air Force (USAAF) may have been ill-equipped to take on Germany when war was declared on 11 December 1941, yet the first American aircraft arrived in Britain the following July. LITTLE FRIENDS: P-51 MUSTANG ESCORT June 1944ī-17 FLYING FORTRESS: BALING-OUT January 1945īERLIN RAID: B-17 FLYING FORTRESS February 1945īERLIN RAID: MUSTANG ESCORT February 1945ī-24 LIBERATOR: RHINE SUPPLY DROP March 1945ī-17 FLYING FORTRESS IN RAF SERVICE September 1941 JERSEY BOUNCE JR: MEDAL OF HONOR February 1944 In addition the CD begins with an evocative medley recording by Captain Glenn Miller and the Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra from 1944. Michael, and a revealing account of early type B-17s in RAF service in 1941. Of particular interest are accounts of the actions which lead to the award of the Medal of Honor to Forrest L. The CD also includes intercom recordings made on board the famous B-17 Memphis Belle during a raid on Wilhelmshaven in May 1943. Famous aircraft types involved include Mustang and Thunderbolt fighters (the 'Little Friends'), and Liberator, Marauder and Flying Fortress bombers. Notable missions include the daring low-level B-24 raid on the Ploesti oilfields in Romania in August 1943, operations over Normandy in June 1944, a B-17 shuttle raid to Russia in 1944, the Ardennes campaign, the Rhine crossing, and daylight raids on Bremen, Lorient and Berlin. Available on CD and digital download, the CD booklet contains archive images and detailed liner notes by James Hayward. All the interview recordings are first-hand eyewitness accounts given by the crews themselves. As well as fighter pilots and bomber crews of the 8th and 9th Air Forces, the 22 tracks also include pilots of transport, ground attack and troop carrier aircraft. USAAF at War offers 69 minutes of rare audio material recorded before, during and after combat operations by men of the United States Army Air Force in the European Theatre. Bomber Crew is a strategic simulation game, where picking the right crew and keeping your bomber in tip top shape is the difference between completing your mission or losing it all! USAAF DLC NOW AVAILABLE! FLY THE ICONIC AMERICAN BOMBER! The Bomber Crew: USAAF DLC features an iconic American Bomber which holds more Crew than ever, over a brand new campaign set in a never before seen Theatre of War! Dig on for victory while fighting it out with all new enemy fighters and Aces while ensuring that you check on the enemy below, as danger also now comes from the seas as much as it. The Bomber Crew USAAF DLC features an iconic American Bomber which holds more Crew than ever, over a brand new campaign set in a never before seen Theatre of War! Dig on for victory while fighting it out with all new enemy fighters and Aces while ensuring that you check on the enemy below, as danger also now comes from the seas as much as it.
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