[303rd-Talk] Masters of the Air

[Bob Van Pelt]

I have waited a couple of months for a copy of this book to be sold in my small little community, but finally found one last night.  I got to page 7 before I could go no farther.  I found three major errors in just seven pages:
   
    
   On the map showing the bases at the very beginning of the book, it does not list all of the Bomb Groups in East Anglia that were in use by D-Day.  The box textually lists all of the bases, but they are not graphically depicted on the map.  The 303rd was not even listed!   
   On the footnote at the bottom of one of the first few pages when he was talking about the Bloody Hundredth, he says Bomb Group was short for Bombardment Group.  Shouldn't that have been Bombardment Group (Heavy)?  Big difference between (Light), (Medium), (Heavy) and (Very Heavy).  
   And the most glaring error he mentions a couple of times in the first few pages is the strategic bombing offensive was the longest battle of the war in Europe.  Wasn't that the Battle of the Atlantic against the U-Boat threat that went back to 1939.   
  Has anyone read the entire book?  And are there many of these kinds of mistakes in the rest of the book?
  Bob Van Pelt

 
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