FIGHTING FROM THE HEAVENS: Tactics and Training of USAAF Bomber Crews, 1941-45

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Reprints significant sections of WWII USAAF training manuals used to train air crews, including doctrinal, training, technical, aircraft-specific, and position-specific publications. Bomber crews were a world unto themselves, composed of pilots, co-pilots, engineers, navigators, wireless operators, gunners, and bombardiers. It can help explain US bomber warfare, including long-distance navigation, gun-turret operation, formation flying, bomber start-up procedures, and bomb aiming. Covers the position inside the main WWII US bombers.