First published in 2011 by Zenith Press, an imprint of MBI Publishing Company, 400 First Avenue North, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55401 USA

Copyright © 2011 by John R. Bruning

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Digital Edition: 978-1-61060-259-4
Softcover Edition: 978-0-76033-990-9

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bruning, John R.

Bombs away!: the World War II bombing campaigns over Europe / John R. Bruning.

     p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-7603-3990-9 (hb w/jkt)

1. World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations. 2. World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front. I. Title.

D785.B78 2011

940.54’42094--dc22

  2010042590

Maps by: Philip Schwartzberg, Meridian Mapping

All photographs are from official U.S. archives and author’s collection unless noted otherwise.

On the cover: A Fifteenth Air Force B-24 drops its payload.

Printed in China