Flak over the target only stopped-or slowed-when Nazi fighter planes attacked the bombers of the 8th Air Force in World War II. Flak was anti-aircraft fire, and

This book, first published in 1992, is a unique repository of language use from 1941-91.

The 450th Bomb Group (H) contained the 720th, 721st, 722nd, and 723rd squdrons.

When Howard Mansfield grew up, World War II was omnipresent and hidden. This was also true of his father’s time in the Air Force. Like most of his generation,