- Aerial Bombing, History, B-24 bomber, Dakota Queen (B-24 bomber)
The very young men who flew the B-24s over Germany in World War II against terrible odds were yet another exceptional band of brothers, and, in The Wild Blue, Ambrose recounts their extraordinary brand of heroism, skill, daring, and comradeship with vivid detail and affection.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- intimateepic
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- Author
- Stephen E. Ambrose
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Simon & Schuster Audio, Tandem Library
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780743223096
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“THE PILOTS AND CREWS OF THE B-24s came from every state and territory in America.”
Stephen Edward Ambrose was an American historian and biographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a longtime professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the author of many best selling volumes of American popular history. **Source**: [Stephen E. Ambrose](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_E._Ambrose) on Wikipedia.
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