01712cam a2200349 4500 2357453959 TxAuBib 20011011120000.0 010227s2001||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2001020563 9780743203395 0743203399 (OCoLC)46419848 TxAuBib Ambrose, Stephen E. The wild blue [BOOK] / Stephen E. Ambrose. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2001. 398 p., [8] p. of plates (large print) : ill. ; 25 cm. Where they came from -- Training -- Learning to fly the B-24 -- The Fifteenth Air Force -- Cerignola, Italy -- Learning to fly in combat -- December 1944 -- The Isle of Capri -- The Tuskegee Airmen fly cover: February 1945 -- Missions over Austria: March 1945 -- Linz: The last mission: April 1945. Includes references to George McGovern, who became a United States senator and a presidential candidate. He flew thirty-five missions (all the Army would allow) and received the Distinguished Flying Cross. 20011113. McGovern, George S George Stanley 1922-2012. Dakota Queen (B-24 bomber.) United States Army Air Forces Squadron, 741st History. United States Army Air Forces Biography. B-24 (Bomber.) World War, 1939-1945 Aerial operations, American. World War, 1939-1945 Regimental histories United States. Bombing, Aerial Germany History 20th century. Bomber pilots Biography. Flight crews Biography.