More Books By Alan C. Carey

This book covers ASW Operations by USN air units against German U-boats and Italian submarines in the South Atlantic during World War II.

• 156 Pages
• Hardback
• Paperback
• Price: Hardback 24.95
• Price: Paperback 14.95

Leatherneck Bombers: Marine Corps B-25/PBJ Mitchell Squadrons in World War II, is a powerful story of an elite group of men chosen to form the U.S. Marine Corps only medium bomber group to serve in World War II.

Through information obtained from veterans, squadron historians, and official government sources, Alan C. Carey, the author of three previous Schiffer books on U.S. Navy PB4Y operations, now documents the history of Marine Corps B-25/PBJ squadrons. Veterans, in their own words, recall the missions they flew and the friends that were lost fighting Japanese forces in the South and Central Pacific.

During the last two years of the war, VMB-413, 423, 433, and 443 flew heckling missions against enemy garrisons on Bougainville and New Ireland in the South Pacific. In the Philippines, VMB-611 used the bomber to conduct rocket and strafing attacks in support of American ground forces. While, in the Central Pacific, VMB-612 and 613 conducted heckling and anti-shipping strikes with aircraft fitted with a 75 millimeter cannon or "Tiny Tim" air-to-ground rockets.

The book includes:

• Paperpack 112 pages
• Over 170 photographs and maps.
• 12 color profiles of individual squadron aircraft.
• A tabulation of PBJ Mitchell bureau bombers and squadron assignment.
• A listing of personnel missing or killed in action including individual names and service ranks.
• Price 24.95

This the story of U.S. Navy Fleet Air Wing Seven (FAW-7) and the men who flew the Navy version of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber out of Dunkeswell and Upottery, England during World War II. Navy PB4Y-1 Liberator squadrons were unlike their counterparts in the 8th Air Force, who battled their way through thick flak and swarms of German fighters while flying to and from targets in continental Europe. The job of U.S. Navy PB4Y-1 Liberator aircrews was to keep German U-boats from successfully operating in the Bay of Biscay and the English Channel by going out day after day, often in miserable weather conditions, on unrelenting search and destroy missions. During the war, FAW-7 Liberators were responsible for the sinking of five U-boats and damaging many more.

• Paperback
• Illustrations: over 300 black and white photographs, color aircraft profiles
• Pages: approx. 160 pages
• Price: 29.95