303rd Bombardment Group

Brian D O’Neill is the General Counsel of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, the famous aviation company that manufactured the Curtiss P-40 fighter and the B-17s Wright Cyclone engine during World War 2. Before becoming an attorney, he served with the US Navy as a destroyer gunner officer and shipyard repair officer. An avid student of Eighth Air Force history, he resides in East Windsor, New Jersey.Mark Styling has illustrated several books in both the Aces and Combat Aircraft series. He has recently switched mediums from airbrush to Mac art, and has produced some of the best profiles Osprey has used to date in Combat Aircraft 18: ‘B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the Eighth Air Force (1)’, Combat Aircraft 22: ‘Mitsubishi Type 1 Rikko ‘Betty’ Units of World War 2’ and Combat Aircraft 25: ‘Mig 17 and MiG 19 Units of the Vietnam War’.

• Introduction and acknowledgementsCHAPTER ONEFORMATION AND TRAININGCHAPTER TWOTHE EARLY MISSIONSCHAPTER THREETARGET GERMANYCHAPTER FOURMASTERING THE ARTCHAPTER FIVEKEEP ‘EM FLYINGCHAPTER SIXWEATHERING THE CRISISCHAPTER SEVENTHE TIDE TURNSCHAPTER EIGHTMASS BOMBING TO VICTORYAppendicesColour plates commentaryIndex