[colorado tanker]

The air force lost 229,544 aircraft from July 1940 through August 1945, while 52,173 of the 115,382 men injured in combat died.

What a sacrifice.

The 15th Air Force was the outfit Ambrose wrote about in "The Wild Blue" as I recall. The Eighth Air Force, based in Britain, seems to have hogged most of the press.

Twelve O'Clock High is an outstanding movie. At one time it was shown to students at the Harvard Business School regarding effective leadership and management techniques.

[SAMWolf]

Yep. The 8th got all the press, the American people always treated the Med as a "secondary front". A discredit to the men who served there.