Target Schweinfurt: The Eighth Air Force's Darkest Days

A vivid account of the US Eighth Air Force's raid on Schweinfurt in October 1943, their most difficult and costliest mission of World War II.

Based on the first-hand accounts of those who survived, renowned aviation historian Tom Cleaver tells the story of the Eighth Air Force's Mission 115, when 291 bombers were sent to Schweinfurt to destroy the ball bearing factories on which the Wehrmacht depended.

In the face of an unrelenting German anti-aircraft defence, the mission became a bitter fig...