ON THE HIGHWAYS OF THE SKIES

The story in words and pictures, many of them never before seen, of the US 8th Air Force fighter and bomber groups of the 1st, 2nd, and Third Air Divisions 1942-1945. Many first person stories tell what combat was like in the skies in the ETO against the Luftwaffe Gruppes of Bf109s and Fw 190s and the B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators. Many first hand accounts detail the frenetic missions that were fraught with flak and fighters as the US Strategic Offensive reached into the deepest parts of the Reich. Also told are stories from the Luftaffe experten who opposed the bomber fleets and the fighter escorts as they sounded the death knell of the Luftwaffe.