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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is bumped and rubbed at top of spine and top corners with a 1/2 inch tear at top front edge. 472 pages with many illustrations. Tall 4to size.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. The format is approximately 10.75 inches by 13 inches. The DJ has some wear and creasing. This is a large and heavy oversized book that if sent outside of the United States will require additional shipping charges. The format and content of this edition are unchanged from the original edition of 1947 except for information in a box on the verso of the title page. On the rear of the dust jacket it states: Copies of this edition will be limited in number and offered for sale primarily to 390th veterans and their family members. From the original Foreword by Howard Vincent O'Brien: This war is done. The guns have ceased their cough and the dead are restored to the dust from which they sprang. The earthbound living struggle on -- snarled in ruthless strife and shabby prejudice. Once more the needle chatters in the roughened groove of peace. But in his brief moment of selfless freedom the warrior widened our horizon. He revealed the unity and strength of which we are capable This book is more than a record of high achievement. It is of the future no less than of the past. It is prophecy. It marks the altitude to which the spirit of man can soar. It is a portent of what life may be when we have learned to labor, as these soldiers did, for the common good. It will remain a fount of refreshment when the heart grows heavy and the light of hope burns dim. During 1978 veterans of the 390th Bomb Group held a reunion in Orlando, Florida and formed a nucleus of what is known as the 390th Bomb Group Veterans Association. Two anthologies and a 50th anniversary commemorative have been published by the Association. The unit was first activated on 26 January 1943 at Geiger Field Washington as the 390th Bombardment Group, with the 568th 569th 570th and 571st Bombardment Squadrons assigned as its original squadrons. Senior officers of the group were the first from bombardment groups to be assigned to Eighth Air Force to attend the Army Air Forces School of Applied Tactics at Orlando Army Air Base, Florida, where comprehensive training, based on the Army Air Forces' combat experience, was conducted. The 390th's Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses began to arrive on 13 July 1943. The ground echelon sailed on the SS James Parker on 17 July 1943, and arrived at Liverpool on 27 July. The group was reunited at its permanent station, RAF Framlingham. The group was the last of the "second wind" heavy bombardment groups that reinforced VIII Bomber Command in the summer of 1943 to arrive in England. It operated chiefly against strategic objectives. The 390th began combat on 12 August 1943. Only five days later, on 17 August, the group attacked the Messerschmitt aircraft complex at Regensburg, achieving the highest accuracy of any of the groups sent against the target. Near the target area, the group was attacked by twin engine German fighters and suffered the heaviest losses of the three groups in the lead wing. The group received a Distinguished Unit Citation for the mission. The 390th was awarded a second Distinguished Unit Citation for a mission on 14 October 1943 when it braved assaults by enemy fighters to bomb the ball bearing plants at Schweinfurt. Once again, the group had the most accurate bombing results of the units attacking the target. Allied intelligence estimated that following the attack German ball bearing production was reduced by 50% and that it was six months before production was restored to its level before the attack. The group participated in the intensive Allied attacks on the German aircraft industry during Big Week, from 20 to 25 February 1944, when it bombed aircraft factories, instrument plants and aircraft depots. Other strategic missions included attacks on marshaling yards at Frankfurt, bridges at Cologne, petroleum facilities at Zeitz, factories at Mannheim, naval installations at Bremen and synthetic oil refineries at Merseburg. In January 1944 Sergeant Hewitt 'Buck' Dunn joined the 390th, who was a gunner and bombardier. He went.…