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We Were Eagles Volume Three: The Eighth Air Force at War June to October 1944
Author(s): Martin W. Bowman (Author)
- Publisher: Amberley Publishing
- Publication Date: February 15, 2015
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 1445633701
- ISBN-13: 9781445633701
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