Hit the Target Eight Men who Led the Eighth Air Force to Victory Over the Luftwaffe

From Bill Yenne, author of the military histories Big Week and Aces High, comes the stirring true story of the Eighth Air Force in World War II. Barely a month after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Army formed its Eighth Air Force—the first bomber command on either side to commit to strategic daylight bombing—with the goal of defeating the Third Reich from the air. The men of the Eighth paid a heavy price in lives and blood to turn the tide of the war. Hit the Target introduces readers to the key figures who transformed the Eighth into a formidable juggernaut, including General Tooey Spaatz, the hard-driving founding commander; Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, the hero of the first air raid on Japan; Maynard 'Snuffy' Smith, the first airman in Europe to receive the Medal of Honor; and Robert 'Rosie' Rosenthal, a legendary pilot who survived the 'Bloody Hundredth' to later serve as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials. Through the lives of these eight men, Yenne tells the story of the revolution in airborne warfare that helped secure an Allied victory.

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