The Original Hell's Angels: 303rd Bombardment Group of WWII

By Valerie Smart

During World War II, there was a famed B-17 aircraft named Hell's Angels. The men who worked together to keep the plane flying over Hitler's occupied Europe, those of the U.S. Army Air Force's 303rd Bombardment Group, were the first in the 8th Air Force to complete twenty-five missions from their base in Molesworth, England. These men, or "Hell's Angels" as they became known, went on to complete forty missions without ever turning back to base for mechanical failure of the plane. In The Original Hell's Angels: 303rd Bombardment Group of World War II, you will take an exciting historical journey to meet these men and to experience the total forty-eight missions they flew without having a member wounded or killed before the plane and members of its crew were commissioned to return to America for a war-bond tour. Also, you will learn how the entire 303rd became known as Hell's Angels, the first heavy bombardment group to complete three hundred missions from American air force bases in England.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
• Release date: Aug 6, 2001
• ISBN: 9781439628164

Valerie Smart

Author Valerie Smart is the great-niece of late Kasmer Wegrzyn, a member of the ground crew for the Hell's Angels plane. She was inspired to compile this pictorial history after discovering a scrapbook of her great-uncle's Hell's Angels days. This book honors all of the men who fought as Hell's Angels during World War II and all of the men and women who made the sacrifices necessary of Americans during that time.

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