TY - BOOK AU - Tillman,Barrett TI - Forgotten Fifteenth: the daring airmen who crippled Hitler's war machine SN - 1621572080 (hbk.) PY - 2014///] CY - Washington, DC PB - Regnery History KW - United States KW - Army Air Forces KW - Air Force, 15th KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Aerial operations, American KW - Campaigns KW - Mediterranean Region N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-314) and index; Up from the desert: November 1943-January 1944 -- The winter war: January-March 1944 -- Italian spring: March-June 1944 -- East to Ploesti: April-June 1944 -- Mediterranean summer: July-September 1944 -- Other players: 1944-1945 -- Air supremacy: September-December 1944 -- Mission accomplished: January-May 1945 -- Legacy: May 1945 and beyond N2 - The story of the U.S. Army's Fifteenth Air Force who waged an unprecedentedly dogged and violent campaign against Hitler's vital oil production and industrial plants on the Third Reich's southern flank, a campaign that contributed to the end of the most destructive war in history ER -