Osprey Combat Aircraft 21 : B-24 Liberator Units of the Fifteenth Air Force

The B-24 was heavily utilised in the North African and Mediterranean theatres by the USAAF's Fifteenth Air Force, with operations over the Ploesti oilfields in Rumania being some of the most famous missions undertaken by the big American 'heavy' in World War 2. Often overshadowed by the exploits of the bomb groups within the 'Mighty Eighth', the 15 heavy bomb groups within the Fifteenth Air Force that flew the B-24 performed ceaseless work striking at targets from bases in southern Italy from November 1943 through to VE-Day. This book is the third of five titles in the Combat Aircraft series devoted to charting the operational history of the Consolidated heavy bomber, and is the first single book to exclusively cover the Fifteenth Air Force's B-24 units. Text by Robert F. Dorr with illustrations by Mark Rolfe.