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Hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. Third Edition (Revised). The dust jacket is in poor condition, featuring several large tears, creasing, and significant loss of material along the top edge of the front panel and spine. The blue cloth boards are visible where the jacket is missing. The binding is tight and the internal pages are clean and unmarked. There are no signs of library use or personal inscriptions. heavily damaged with large tears and missing pieces. Steve W. Ferguson (illustrator).…

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Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. new unread private library liquidation heavy book extra postage may apply.

Zustand: New. Num Pages: 360 pages, over 600 photos, color aircraft profiles, maps. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBWQ; JWG; TBX; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 288 x 217 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1704. . 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. . . . .

Zustand: New. Num Pages: 360 pages, over 600 photos, color aircraft profiles, maps. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBWQ; JWG; TBX; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 288 x 217 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1704. . 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First printing [Stated]. The format is approximately 8.75 inches by 11.25 inches. 448 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Maps. Appendix I-IV. Bibliography. Index. This is mostly in a two-column format. During World War II the 345th Bombardment Group operated in the Southwest Pacific Theater as a North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber unit assigned to Fifth Air Force. It was awarded both the Distinguished Unit Citation and the Philippine Presidential Unit Citation for its combat service in New Guinea; the Bismarck Archipelago, Leyte; Luzon; the Southern Philippines and China. The group was activated on 11 November 1942, at Columbia Army Air Base, South Carolina, by Third Air Force order No. 275. The 498th, 499th, 500th, and 501st Bombardment Squadrons were assigned to it. The 345th started with 40 officers and 350 enlisted men, commanded by then Col. Jarred V. Crabb. Full strength, the 345th would contain 250 officers and 1250 enlisted men. Lawrence J. Hickey (1944-2021). He became the first analyst for the newly formed South Vietnam political desk at DIA. During most of his career with DIA, he served with the inter-agency task force known as the Vietnam Special Studies Group, which, under Dr. Kissinger, produced studies on U.S. war policy in support of the Paris peace talks. In January of 1972, Larry was credited with providing the first warning within the Washington intelligence community of the forthcoming, all-out North Vietnamese spring offensive, and thereafter took the lead of reporting on it. At the end of 1972, he left government service to become a private businessman and entrepreneur. The 345th Bomb Group was first activated at Columbia Army Air Base, South Carolina, in November of 1942, with flight crew training beginning in December of that same year. They trained there for five months before moving to Walterboro, S.C., for final preparation before deployment overseas. It was here in Walterboro that the four squadrons that made up the 345th adopted their nicknames, the 498th became the FALCONS, the 499TH , BATS OUTA HELL, the 500th,ROUGH RAIDERS, and the 501ST became the BLACK PANTHERS. Originally the 345th was to deploy to England, however, Maj. Gen. George C. Kenney had successfully pleaded for more B-25's to be deployed to the Pacific. This was accomplished in part thanks to the recent success that B-25's had in the Battle of the Bismarck sea. In April of 1943 the 345th headed west to the southwest pacific theater. After a brief stop in Australia, the 345th set up camp at the air bases of Port Moresby, New Guinea, becoming the first full Air Force combat Group sent the Pacific in World War II. August of 1943 began the conversion from level bomber to the "strafer" role that the 345th would become famous for. This conversion entailed the removal of the bottom turret which was replaced with an extra gas tank, and the three hand-held machine guns manned by the bombardier-navigator were removed and the "greenhouse" nose was rebuilt to accommodate four forward-firing .50-caliber machine guns. Two side-pack machine guns were added on each side of the lower fuselage just aft of the cockpit, giving the plane eight new fifty-caliber machine guns in addition to the twin fifties in the top turret and tail, and single fifties at the waist positions. Later versions would bring the total forward firing capabilities to 14 forward firing .50 caliber machine guns that would make the superstructure of an enemy ship dissolve as the armor-piercing incendiary projectiles melted it. During the 26 months that the 345th was in combat, 58,562 combat hours on 10,609 strikes were made. 58,000 bombs with a total weight of 6340 tons were dropped and over twelve-and-a-half million rounds of ammunition were expended. They were credited with sinking 260 enemy vessels and damaging 275 others. They destroyed 260 Japanese planes on the ground and another 107 in aerial combat. Its units won four Distinguished Unit Citations, including one for an unescorted raid on Rabaul in October of 1943. This record came at a high cost, 712 men dead from all causes, 580 killed on flights. Another 111 men were killed on November 12th, 1944, when Kamikaze's attacked the SS Nelson and SS Waite in Leyte Gulf. Most of these men were ground personnel waiting for the 345th to be moved ashore to their new home in the Philippines. 177 planes were also lost. In all, the 345th participated in nine major campaigns in the Asia-Pacific Theater, these included the New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, Northern Solomons, Southern Philippines, Luzon, Western Pacific, China Defensive, China Offensive, and Air Offensive against Japan. The 345th became one of the most decorated units of the war. In August of 1945, the Air Apaches were given the great honor of intercepting and escorting the two Japanese "Betty" bombers that were transporting the peace emissaries who were to initiate the Japanese surrender. The Group was officially deactivated at Camp Stoneman, Ca., on December 29th, 1945, after just over three years of existence. Steve W. Ferguson (Maps and Color Artwork) (illustrator).…

Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. First edition. Bound in publisher's side-stapled illustrated wraps. Near Fine with toning and foxing to front wrap edges and faint oxidation to staples. A scarce imprint from Levy's Renegade Press with contributions by T. L. Kryss (with "To Charles Bukowski"), Allen Ginsberg, Douglas Blazek, and members of the Cleveland School. Taylor & Horvath P-125. …