Bombing Hitler's Hometown: The Untold Story of the Last Mass Bomber Raid of World War II in Europe (Paperback)

In April 1945, Linz stood as one of Nazi Germany's most vital assets—a crucial transportation hub and communications center where railyards overflowed with war materiel. It was also Hitler's claimed hometown, making it one of Europe's most heavily defended targets. Young men of the US Fifteenth Air Force flew unheated, unpressurized B-24 Liberators and B-17 Flying Fortresses into conditions as treacherous as enemy fire itself. When German antiaircraft batteries opened up, they faced a manmade hell of exploding shrapnel. Drawing on interviews with dozens of surviving World War II veterans and Linz residents, plus previously unpublished sources, Mike Croissant reveals one of the war's last truly untold stories—a gripping chronicle of warfare and a timeless tale of courage, terror, loss, and redemption.

Author: Mike Croissant

August Books

398 pages