The 86th Fighter Group in WWII Here is the complete story of the training and operations of the 86th Fighter Bomber Group,
Third Air Force and later with the Twelfth Air Force. The men as well as the machines they flew are carefully presented
in a comprehensive, fully photographically documented format. Included are numerous, never-before-told personal accounts
of combat and life in the 86th, woven in with the historical text researched and written by Steve Luce, a son of one of
the groups pilots Lt. Warren Luce. Profiles of select colorful aircraft, their A-36s and P-47 Thunderbolts, are vividly
illustrated by Terry Higgins. This volume is the commemoration of the sacrifices and dedication of a group of extremely
courageous, though largely unheralded young men who volunteered to answer a call, and to prosecute to its finish,
in a manner up close and very personal, a war not of their making so as to make the world free of tyranny and a safer,
better place in which to live. Their story is presented by over 225 photographs from the veterans, most never before published
and with personal stories about their war experiences. 146 pages.
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