The Three Musketeers of the Army Air Forces

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The Three Musketeers of the Army Air Forces is written by Robert O Harder and published by Naval Institute Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1612519032 (ISBN 10) and 9781612519036 (ISBN 13).

While scores of books have been published about the atomic bombings that helped end World War II, little has been written about the personal lives and relationship of the three men that led the raids. Paul Tibbets, Tom Ferebee, and Ted “Dutch” Van Kirk exemplified what Life Magazine meant when in 1942 it called the B-17 pilot, bombardier, and navigator “the three musketeers of the Army Air Forces.” A former navigator-bombardier and pilot himself, Harder brings a fresh perspective to an otherwise well-known narrative. He provides a rare insider’s look at exactly who these three fellows were, how they were trained, what they meant to each other, and finally how everything coalesced into the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks.