The Three Musketeers of Army Air Forces: From Hitler's Fortress Europa to Hiroshima and Nagasaki
While scores of books have been published about the atomic bombings that helped end World War II, little has been written about the personal lives and relationship of the three men that led the raids. Paul Tibbets, Tom Ferebee, and Ted “Dutch” Van Kirk exemplified what Life Magazine meant when in 1942 it called the B-17 pilot, bombardier, and navigator “the three musketeers of the Army Air Forces.” A former navigator-bombardier and pilot himself, Harder brings a fresh perspective to an otherwise well-known narrative. He provides a rare insider’s look at exactly who these three fellows were, how they were trained, what they meant to each other, and finally how everything coalesced into the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks.
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The Three Musketeers of Army Air Forces: From Hitler's Fortress Europa to Hiroshima and Nagasaki
While scores of books have been published about the atomic bombings that helped end World War II, little has been written about the personal lives and relationship of the three men that led the raids. Paul Tibbets, Tom Ferebee, and Ted “Dutch” Van Kirk exemplified what Life Magazine meant when in 1942 it called the B-17 pilot, bombardier, and navigator “the three musketeers of the Army Air Forces.” A former navigator-bombardier and pilot himself, Harder brings a fresh perspective to an otherwise well-known narrative. He provides a rare insider’s look at exactly who these three fellows were, how they were trained, what they meant to each other, and finally how everything coalesced into the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks.
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The Three Musketeers of Army Air Forces: From Hitler's Fortress Europa to Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The Three Musketeers of Army Air Forces: From Hitler's Fortress Europa to Hiroshima and Nagasaki

by Robert O Harder
The Three Musketeers of Army Air Forces: From Hitler's Fortress Europa to Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The Three Musketeers of Army Air Forces: From Hitler's Fortress Europa to Hiroshima and Nagasaki

by Robert O Harder

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While scores of books have been published about the atomic bombings that helped end World War II, little has been written about the personal lives and relationship of the three men that led the raids. Paul Tibbets, Tom Ferebee, and Ted “Dutch” Van Kirk exemplified what Life Magazine meant when in 1942 it called the B-17 pilot, bombardier, and navigator “the three musketeers of the Army Air Forces.” A former navigator-bombardier and pilot himself, Harder brings a fresh perspective to an otherwise well-known narrative. He provides a rare insider’s look at exactly who these three fellows were, how they were trained, what they meant to each other, and finally how everything coalesced into the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781612519036
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Publication date: 11/15/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 10 MB

About the Author

Robert O. Harder was an Air Force ROTC Distinguished Military Graduate and Strategic Air Command “Cold War” B-52D aircrewman with 145 combat missions during the Vietnam War. A rated navigator and radar bombardier, he also flew nuclear training sorties and stood Pad Alert. A former business executive, he is an FAA-certificated flight instructor and writer. His previous book, Flying from the Black Hole: The B-52 Navigator-Bombardiers of Vietnam was first published by the Naval Institute Press in 2009.

Table of Contents

Preface xi

Chapter 1 Tibbets 1

Chapter 2 Ferebee 15

Chapter 3 Van Kirk 25

Chapter 4 Sarasota 33

Chapter 5 Fortress Europa 42

Chapter 6 The Generals and North Africa 61

Chapter 7 Interregnum 77

Chapter 8 Wendover 95

Chapter 9 Tinian 111

Chapter 10 The Big One 122

Chapter 11 Hiroshima 140

Chapter 12 The Rest of the Story 156

Appendix. The Near-Catastrophic Nagasaki Mission 171

Acknowledgments 189

Notes 193

Bibliography 235

Index 241

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